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New York, N. Y Alfred A. Knopf 2016 First Edition [stated]. presumed first printing Hardcover Very good in Very good jacket 239 pages. Signed by the author on the second front endpaper. Some sticker residue on back of DJ. Includes chapters on Why Bureaucracies so Often Fail Us; Where You Want to Go: "The Vision Thing'; Formulating a Strategy; Techniques for Implementing Change; It's Always About People; Stakeholders: Friends and Foes; The Agent of Change: "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall'': Money, Money, Money: Reforming in Scarce times; Reform: The Never-Ending Story; and A Flaming Heart. Also includes Acknowledgments and Index. A characteristically direct and informed assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement. 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. Robert Gates having led change successfully at three monumental organizations-the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense-offers 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. With practical advice on tailoring reform to the culture; effecting change within committees; engaging the power of compromise; and ...
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, N.Y.] Hardcover First Edition 239 pages. Signed by the author on the second front endpaper. Some sticker residue on back of DJ. Includes chapters on Why Bureaucracies so Often Fail Us; Where You Want to Go: "The Vision Thing'; Formulating a Strategy; Techniques for Implementing Change; It's Always About People; Stakeholders: Friends and Foes; The Agent of Change: "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall'': Money, Money, Money: Reforming in Scarce times; Reform: The Never-Ending Story; and A Flaming Heart. Also includes Acknowledgments and Index. A characteristically direct and informed assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement. 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. Robert Gates having led change successfully at three monumental organizations-the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense-offers 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. With practical advice on tailoring reform to the culture; effecting change within committees; ...
New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 2016. First Edition [stated]. presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 239 pages. Signed by the author on the second front endpaper. Some sticker residue on back of DJ. Includes chapters on Why Bureaucracies so Often Fail Us; Where You Want to Go: "The Vision Thing'; Formulating a Strategy; Techniques for Implementing Change; It's Always About People; Stakeholders: Friends and Foes; The Agent of Change: "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall'': Money, Money, Money: Reforming in Scarce times; Reform: The Never-Ending Story; and A Flaming Heart. Also includes Acknowledgments and Index. A characteristically direct and informed assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement. 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. Robert Gates having led change successfully at three monumental organizations-the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense-offers 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. With practical advice on tailoring reform to the culture; effecting change within committees; engaging the power of ...
Alfred a Knopf Inc, Date: 2016. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 259 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. 2016. Alfred a Knopf Inc ISBN 030795949X 9780307959492 [GB]
U.S. A Knopf 2016 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good jacket SIGNED by author. Stated First Edition. Dust Jacket in VG condition, light edgewear. Boards in VG condition, small bump at bottom of spine. Binding is tight. Pages are clean.
U.S.A.: Knopf, Date: 2016. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED by author. Stated First Edition. Dust Jacket in VG condition, light edgewear. Boards in VG condition, small bump at bottom of spine. Binding is tight. Pages are clean. 2016. Knopf ISBN 030795949x 9780307959492 [US]
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: Knopf, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition SIGNED by author. Stated First Edition. Dust Jacket in VG condition, light edgewear. Boards in VG condition, small bump at bottom of spine. Binding is tight. Pages are clean. [Seattle, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: U.S.A.: Knopf] Hardcover First Edition 2016 1ST EDITION STATED hardcover LIKE NEW/dustjacket LIKE NEW brodart covered SIGNED by author/former Sec of Defense ROBERT M GATES [Sherwood Forest, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
New York: Alfred A Knopf, Date: 2016. Boldly signed with a black sharpie by Robert M. Gates on a Boy Scouts of America label affixed to the first blank page after the front free endpaper (his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Laid in is a brown leather bookmark commemorating the Thomas Monson Leadership Excellence Complex Groundbreaking Ceremony, June 15, 2016 in which Gates participated. Also laid-in is a photocopy with several examples of his signature for authentication. NEW in a NEW dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. NO fading, creases, chips, or tears. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. "Robert Michael Gates... served as the 22nd United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011. He was originally appointed by president George W. Bush and was retained for service by President Barack Obama. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Gates served for 26 years in the CIA and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush. Gates was nominated by Republican president George W. Bush as Secretary of Defense two years after the 2004 election, replacing Donald Rumsfeld. He continued to serve as Secretary of Defense in President Barack Obama's administration. He ...
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: Alfred A Knopf, New York] Hardcover First Edition New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2016. Boldly signed with a black sharpie by Robert M. Gates on a Boy Scouts of America label affixed to the first blank page after the front free endpaper (his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Laid in is a brown leather bookmark commemorating the Thomas Monson Leadership Excellence Complex Groundbreaking Ceremony, June 15, 2016 in which Gates participated. Also laid-in is a photocopy with several examples of his signature for authentication. NEW in a NEW dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. NO fading, creases, chips, or tears. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. "Robert Michael Gates. served as the 22nd United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011. He was originally appointed by president George W. Bush and was retained for service by President Barack Obama. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Gates served for 26 years in the CIA and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush. Gates was nominated by Republican president George W. Bush as Secretary of Defense two years after the 2004 election, replacing Donald Rumsfeld. He ...
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf] Hardcover In stock ready to dispatch from the UK [Gillingham, KENT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2016]
New York: Knopf, Date: 2016. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated. No writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This collectible, " NEW" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. Unread. Pristine. GIFT QUALITY 2016. Knopf ISBN 030795949x 9780307959492 [US]
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: Knopf, New York] Hardcover First Edition First Edition stated. No writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This collectible, " NEW" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. Unread. Pristine. GIFT QUALITY [Charlotte Hall, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
New York Alfred A. Knopf 2016 Hard cover Good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York] Hardcover First Edition First edition, stated. Signed by the author on a round J.P.Morgan Asset Management bookplate on the front endpaper: "Robert M. Gates." The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, tail of spine lightly bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $27.95); Brodart protected. [Wellesley, MA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Date: 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Having led change successfully at three sprawling, monumental organizations-the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense-Robert M. Gates offers the ultimate insider's look at how leaders can transform large organizations and companies. For many Americans, bureaucracy and corporate structure are code words for inertia. Gates knows that it doesn't have to be that way. With stunning clarity, he shares how simple plans, faithfully executed, can cut through the mire of bureaucracy to reform organizational culture. And he shows that great leaders listen and respond to their teams and embrace the power of compromise. Using the full weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to duty, he empowers leaders at any level to effectively implement his leadership strategies. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-mared or price-clipped} BUND 2016. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 030795949x 9780307959492 [US]
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition Having led change successfully at three sprawling, monumental organizations—the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense—Robert M. Gates offers the ultimate insider's look at how leaders can transform large organizations and companies. For many Americans, bureaucracy and corporate structure are code words for inertia. Gates knows that it doesn't have to be that way. With stunning clarity, he shares how simple plans, faithfully executed, can cut through the mire of bureaucracy to reform organizational culture. And he shows that great leaders listen and respond to their teams and embrace the power of compromise. Using the full weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to duty, he empowers leaders at any level to effectively implement his leadership strategies. New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-mared or price-clipped} BUND [Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: Knopf] Hardcover New. Fast Shipping and good customer service [Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
ISBN10: 030795949X, ISBN13: 9780307959492, [publisher: Knopf, New York] Hardcover First Edition 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED (inscribed) by author on a bookplate affixed to front end page. $27.95 price present on DJ flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall [Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
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USA: ALFRED A. KNOPF, Date: 2016. 1ST EDITION. HARDCOVER. FINE/FINE. USA: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 2016. 1ST EDITION. FINE/FINE. USA: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 2016. 1ST EDITION. FINE/FINE. Alfred A. Knopf, USA, 2015, hardcover, 1st edition (stated). fine book in a near fine jacket, unclipped jacket, unmarked, not remaindered, bookclub or library 2016. ALFRED A. KNOPF ISBN 030795949x 9780307959492 [US]
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Knopf, Date: 2016-01-19. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated First edition. Appears unread, minor shelf wear around the edges of DJ.. Unconditional money back guarantee. Knopf ISBN 030795949X 9780307959492 [US]
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