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  • Succeeding as a Political Executive

    Fifty Insights from Experience

    by Mark A. Abramson, Paul R. Lawrence ...
    Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with these individuals, gaining insights into running government organizations. This book is aimed at those interested in the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Getting It Done

    A Guide for Government Executives

    by Mark A. Abramson, Daniel Chenok, John M. Kamensky ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    Getting It Done was written for those who have answered the call to public service. Now, in this 2017 edition, the editors of IBM’s Center for The Business of Government series have assembled a comprehensive guide to navigating the current environment of government, and what government leaders ought to know to survive and thrive with respect to the ways it’s evolved over the years. Concise ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Government for the Future

    Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow's Leaders

    by Mark A. Abramson, Daniel J. Chenok, John M. Kamensky ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    In recognition of its 20th anniversary, The IBM Center for the Business of Government offers a retrospective of the most significant changes in government management during that period and looks forward over the next 20 years to offer alternative scenarios as to what government management might look like by the year 2040. Part I will discuss significant management improvements in the federal ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • What Government Does

    How Political Executives Manage

    by Mark A. Abramson, Paul Lawrence ...
    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 ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Paths to Making a Difference

    Leading in Government

    by Mark A. Abramson, Paul R. Lawrence ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings of a two year's study of top political appointees in the Obama administration.The participants-deputy secretaries and agency heads-provide case studies of how each approaches ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Collaboration

    Using Networks and Partnerships

    by Mark A. Abramson, Robert Agranoff, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Samuel M. DeMarie, Elaine C. Kamarck, Robert Klitgaard, John W. Scanlon, William M. Snyder, Gregory F. Treverton, William L. Waugh Jr. ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect more, the way government delivers services and results is changing rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop services and cross-agency results. This translation implies collaboration-within agencies; among agencies; among levels of governments; and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • New Ways of Doing Business

    by Gary C. Bryner, John J. Callahan, Steven Cohen, William Eimicke, Richard C. Hula, Jocelyn M. Johnston, Anne Laurent, Jerry Mitchell, Helen A. Regis, Barbara S. Romzek. Dennis A. Rondinelli, John P. Bartkowski ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    In their introduction, the editors of New Ways of Doing Business assert that in retrospect, it will be apparent that today's government, that of the early years of the 21st century, 'was undergoing its most significant transformation since the decade of the 1930's when direct government-delivered services grew significantly as part of the New Deal.' This newest volume in the IBM Endowment for the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Paths to Making a Difference

    Leading in Government

    by Mark A. Abramson, Paul R. Lawrence ...
    To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings of a two year's study of top political appointees in the Obama administration.The participants—deputy secretaries and agency heads—provide case studies of how each approaches ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Getting It Done

    A Guide for Government Executives

    Edited by Martin G. Wagner, Mark A. Abramson, Jonathan D. Breul, Daniel J. Chenok, John M. Kamensky ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    Getting It Done was written for those who have answered the call to public service. Now, in this revised edition, the editors of IBM’s Center for The Business of Government series have assembled a comprehensive guide to navigating the current environment of government, and what government leaders ought to know to survive and thrive with respect to the ways it’s evolved over the years. Concise ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Business Adventures

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    " Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." —Bill Gates, The Wall Street JournalWhat do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or ... Read more

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  • Love & War

    Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home

    by James Carville, Mary Matalin ...
    **New York Times bestsellerTwenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how they—and America—have changed in the last two decades.**James Carville and Mary Matalin have long held the mantle of the nation’s most ideologically mismatched and intensely opinionated political couple. In this follow-up to All’s Fair, Carville and Matalin pick ... Read more

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