What Government Does

How Political Executives Manage

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvMark A. Abramson,Paul Lawrence

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To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executivessucceed in accomplishing an Administration’s objectives, business-in-governmentexperts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findingsof a four-year study of top political appointees in the Obama Administration.The 42 participants—Deputy Secretaries and agency heads—provide casestudies of how each approaches the management challenges and achievesthe mission of their organization.Full of behind-the-scenes insights and practical advice from government politicalexecutives on how they face management challenges in real time, WhatGovernment Does: How Political Executives Manage offers indispensable insightsto current and prospective political appointees and everyone interestedin understanding how leaders make government agencies more effective.The new book, a follow-up to their previous book, Paths to Making aDifference: Leading in Government, presents an insightful framework of whatgovernment does. Instead of thinking about government by policy area, theauthors present an alternative approach in which government executives arecategorized by the type of agency they are managing. The book includeschapters on Deputy Secretaries, producers, regulators, infrastructors, scientists,and collaborators.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-02-18
Mått150 x 224 x 17 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781442232433

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[T]his [is an] important and admirably well-crafted volume. Every American has a stake in what government does and how political executives manage; few Americans, however, have enough of an interest to read through a granular-level, interview-based book on the subject. But more of us should, and I would be delighted . . . to see this fine book top the best-seller lists. . . .With every new administration over the years to come there will be a fresh crop of political executives in dire need—whether they know it or not—of the lessons, cautionary tales, and pep talks from their predecessors assembled here. The rest of us can treasure it now as a reminder of how exquisitely important these jobs are; how lucky we are to have such talented, patriotic people taking up these brutally hard and often thankless tasks; and what a pickle we will be in if public leaders of this caliber ever stop raising their hands to do the difficult work on which our welfare depends.