Gates, Robert Michael
A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service / Robert Michael Gates - 239 pages ; 20 cm
Includes index
Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday life. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are essential, yet Americans know these institutions fall short. Many despair that they are too big and too hard to reform. Robert Gates disagrees. Having led change successfully at three monumental organizations -- the CIA, Texas A & M University, and the Department of Defense -- he offers an insider's look at how major bureaus, organizations, and companies can be transformed. Gates includes advice on tailoring reform to the operative culture (we see how Gates worked within the system to increase diversity at Texas A & M); effecting change within committees; engaging the power of compromise ("In the real world of bureaucratic institutions, you almost never get all you want when you want it"); and listening and responding to your team
9780307949646
Gates, Robert Michael, --1943-
Administrative agencies --Reorganization
Administrative agencies --United States--Reorganization
Administrative agencies --United States
Cabinet officers --United States --Biography
Leadership --United States
Organizational change --United States
Public administration --United States --Anecdotes
United States --Politics and government
United States--Officials and employees--Central Intelligence Agency
United States. --Officials and employees --Biography--Central Intelligence Agency
United States--Officials and employees--Department of Defense
United States. --Officials and employees --Biography--Department of Defense
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A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service / Robert Michael Gates - 239 pages ; 20 cm
Includes index
Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday life. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are essential, yet Americans know these institutions fall short. Many despair that they are too big and too hard to reform. Robert Gates disagrees. Having led change successfully at three monumental organizations -- the CIA, Texas A & M University, and the Department of Defense -- he offers an insider's look at how major bureaus, organizations, and companies can be transformed. Gates includes advice on tailoring reform to the operative culture (we see how Gates worked within the system to increase diversity at Texas A & M); effecting change within committees; engaging the power of compromise ("In the real world of bureaucratic institutions, you almost never get all you want when you want it"); and listening and responding to your team
9780307949646
Gates, Robert Michael, --1943-
Administrative agencies --Reorganization
Administrative agencies --United States--Reorganization
Administrative agencies --United States
Cabinet officers --United States --Biography
Leadership --United States
Organizational change --United States
Public administration --United States --Anecdotes
United States --Politics and government
United States--Officials and employees--Central Intelligence Agency
United States. --Officials and employees --Biography--Central Intelligence Agency
United States--Officials and employees--Department of Defense
United States. --Officials and employees --Biography--Department of Defense
352.2