03605cam a2200793 4500 525583808 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307959508 0307959503 B00WPQ0PHU Amazon 51966b33-6256-48ae-98e1-22d6da1b4934 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 217978 217978 217978 2301922 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gates, Robert Michael, 1943- A Passion for Leadership [Libby] : Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. American Politics . politics. Business. leadership skills. bureaucracy. Barack Obama. CEO. Fraud. Memoirs. Government Jobs. Entrepreneurship. George H.W. Bush. communication skills. management. communication. Public service. Richard Nixon. civil service. CIA. self help books. Leadership. accountability. memoir. George W. Bush. Economics. political science. books on leadership. jeff bezos. business books. management books. civil servant. political book. Robert Gates. gifts for men. leadership books. bob gates. robert service. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1344kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 914kB. Business. Nonfiction. HTML:From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir&#160;<i>Duty,</i> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Robert Gates disagrees. Having led change successfully at three monumental organizations—the CIA, Texas A&amp;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.<br /> <br /> With... Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. 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)