A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from

A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoirÂ Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale.

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 organizationsâ€”the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defenseâ€”he offers us the ultimate insiderâ€™s look at how major bureaus, organizations, and companies can be transformed, which is by turns heartening and inspiring and always instructive.

With practical, nuanced 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 (â€œIn the real world of bureaucratic institutions, you almost never get all you want when you want itâ€); and listening and responding to your team, Gates brings the full weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to civic duty to inspire others to lead desperately needed change.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780307959492
Color White
ReleaseDate 2016-01-19
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307959492

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780307959492
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2016-01-19
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307959492

A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service

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