00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612597338 Buklod 20230214004941.0 m |o d | ta 170923s xx d r |||| u| 9780307959492 (hardcover) (iLib)UPD-00344412016 DLC DVAN rda eng E 897.4 G37 A3 2016 Gates, Robert Michael 1943- author. A passion for leadership lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service Robert M. Gates. First edition. New York Alfred A. Knopf 2016. 239 pages 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes index. 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. Gates, Robert Michael 1943-. United States. Department of Defense Biography. Officials and employees. United States. Central Intelligence Agency Biography. Officials and employees. Texas A & M University System Biography. Cabinet officers United States Biography. Organizational change United States. Leadership United States. Public administration United States Anecdotes. Administrative agencies Reorganization. United States. United States Politics and government. Book FO UPD DVAN E 897.4 G37 A3 2016 Book