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16%OFFRobert Behn - Leadership Counts - 9780674518537 - V9780674518537
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Leadership Counts

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Description for Leadership Counts Paperback. How can public officials move large government agencies to produce significant results? In "Leadership Counts" Robert Behn explains exactly what managers in the inherently political environment of government need to do to obtain such performance. Num Pages: 263 pages, 5l, 10 tables. BIC Classification: JPQ; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.

How can public officials move large government agencies to produce significant results? In Leadership Counts, Robert Behn explains exactly what managers in the inherently political environment of government need to do to obtain such performance.

In 1983 the leadership of the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare—Charles M. Atkins, Thomas P. Glynn, Barbara Burke-Tatum, and Jolie Bain Pillsbury—set out to educate and train welfare recipients, place them in good jobs, and move them from dependency to self-sufficiency. From these efforts to accomplish a specific and important public purpose, Behn extracts the fundamental ingredients of successful public leadership.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674518537
SKU
V9780674518537
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Reviews for Leadership Counts
Leadership Counts is vintage Behn. It combines a deep understanding of public management with a thoroughly engaging, colorful, and memorable writing style.
Alan Altshuler, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University This is an excellent book. It illuminates important aspects of public administration and management; it provides much useful information about an interesting public policy; and it tells its tale ... Read more

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