A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service / Robert Michael Gates
By: Gates, Robert Michael [author]
Language: English Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, ©2017Description: 239 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780307949646Subject(s): Gates, Robert Michael, -- 1943- | Administrative agencies -- Reorganization | Administrative agencies -- Reorganization -- United States | 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 -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees | United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography | United States -- Department of Defense -- Officials and employees | United States. -- Department of Defense -- Officials and employees -- BiographyDDC classification: 352.2 Summary: 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| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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
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