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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
Author	Robert M Gates
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780307959508
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
NumberOfPages	233
PublicationDate	2016-01-19
Publisher	Vintage
ReleaseDate	2016-01-19
Studio	Vintage

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

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