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A passion for leadership lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service

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 effective service are essential; yet Americans know these institutions are often anything but, and many despair that the...

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Main Author: Gates, Robert Michael, 1943- (Author)
Other Authors: Newbern, George, 1964- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: [Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape, [2016]
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Gates, Robert Michael, > 1943-
United States. > Department of Defense > Officials and employees > Biography.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > Officials and employees > Biography.
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 > United States > Reorganization.
United States > Politics and government.
Audiobooks.
Summary: 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 effective service are essential; yet Americans know these institutions are often anything but, and 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 argues that smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale.
Item Description: Title from web page.
Compact discs.
Physical Description: 7 sound discs (8 hr., 6 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781101888834 :
1101888830 :
9781101888810
1101888814
Author Notes: Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American statesman and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W. Bush was Director of Central Intelligence. Gates was also an officer in the United States Air Force and during the early part of his military career, he was recruited by the CIA. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University and was a member of several corporate boards. He served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, that studied the lessons of the Iraq War.

Gates has won many honorary doctorates from universities, including an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Yale University; his government awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In January 2014, Gates published his autobiography, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, which quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Gates', A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service, released in 2016, became an iBook bestseller.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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