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A passion for leadership, lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service, Robert M. Gates

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A passion for leadership, lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service, Robert M. Gates

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eng

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A passion for leadership

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908373224

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Robert M. Gates

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lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service

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 effective service are essential; yet Americans know these institutions are often anything but, and 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 argues that smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale

Table Of Contents

Why bureaucracies so often fail us -- Where you want to go: "the vision thing" -- Formulating a strategy -- Techniques for implementing change -- It's always about people -- Stakeholders: friends and foes -- The agent of change: "mirror, mirror on the wall" -- Money, money, money: reforming in scarce times -- Reform: the never-ending story -- A flaming heart

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