03058cam a2200313 4500 591855144 TxAuBib 20220525120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101888841 1101888849 069edd73-eec6-4183-a9be-174d02be8097 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2197996 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gates, Robert Michael, 1943- A Passion for Leadership [Libby Audiobook] : Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 223MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 222MB. HTML:From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir <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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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&amp;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.<br /> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>. Nonfiction. Business. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. Newbern, George. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2197996-APassionForLeadership.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=069edd73-eec6-4183-a9be-174d02be8097&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2197996-APassionForLeadership.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=069edd73-eec6-4183-a9be-174d02be8097&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)