A Passion for Leadership by Robert M Gates

A Passion for Leadership by Robert M Gates

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoirDuty, 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.

Duty and A Passion for Leadership are both written by ROBERT M.GATES. He served as Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Before being named head of the CIA, he served in the United States Air Force and worked for the CIA. He served eight presidents of both political parties as a member of the National Security Council staff in four administrations.

From 2002 to 2006, he served as president of Texas A&M University, and he is now chancellor of the College of William & Mary. From 2014 to 2016, he served as national president of the Boy Scouts of America, and he has served on multiple business boards of directors. He was named chairman of the Eisenhower Fellowships in 2018. He resides in the state of Washington.

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ISBN 13	9780307949646
ISBN 10	0307949648
Title	A Passion for Leadership
Author	Robert M Gates
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2017-01-10
Number of pages	256
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