04104cam a2200661 i 4500 760956490 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 r 151211s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307959508 electronic bk. 0307959503 electronic bk. B00WPQ0PHU Amazon 51966b33-6256-48ae-98e1-22d6da1b4934 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2301922 OverDrive (Product ID) 217978 217978 217978 (OCoLC)933510678 B@L eng B@L OCLCO TEFOD TOH IDEBK OCLCF TXN TxAuBib rda Gates, Robert Michael, 1943- A Passion for Leadership [Libby] / Robert M Gates. [S.I. : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. 1 online resource. txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1344kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 914kB. From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir 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 organizations--the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense--he offers us the ultimate insider'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 ("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, Gates brings the full weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to civic duty to inspire others to lead desperately needed change. From the Hardcover edition. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Imported from MARC file. Gates, Robert Michael 1943- Texas A & M University System. United States Central Intelligence Agency. United States Department of Defense. Business. Administrative agencies Reorganization. Cabinet officers. Employees. Leadership. Organizational change. Politics and government. Public administration. Anecdotes. Biography. United States Politics and government. United STates. Nonfiction. Electronic books. http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=51966B33-6256-48AE-98E1-22D6DA1B4934 http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{51966B33-6256-48AE-98E1-22D6DA1B4934}Img100.jpg Image https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=51966b33-6256-48ae-98e1-22d6da1b4934&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=51966b33-6256-48ae-98e1-22d6da1b4934&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=51966b33-6256-48ae-98e1-22d6da1b4934&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8