02613cam a2200421 i 4500 626037150 TxAuBib 20160120120000.0 150803s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015010209 9780307959492 hardcover 030795949X hardcover (OCoLC)918986499 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC OCLCF rda DLC YDXCP BUR TXAAL TxAuBib OCLCF YDXCP BUR TXAAL TxAuBib rda 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. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. From the former Secretary of Defense and author of the 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.--Adapted from book jacket. 20160120. Gates, Robert Michael 1943- United States Department of Defense Officials and employees Biography. United States Central Intelligence Agency Officials and employees Biography. Cabinet officers United States Biography. Organizational change United States. Leadership United States. Public administration United States Anecdotes. Administrative agencies United States Reorganization. United States Politics and government. Biographies. Anecdotes. TXAAL