current books & authors Flashcards
Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
In Search of Excellence
Deborah Stone
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
“behind every policy issue works a contest over conflicting, though equally plausible, conceptions of the same abstract goal or value.”
James MacGregor Burns
Leadership - 1978
Transactional and Transformational
Ronald A. Heifetz
Leadership without Easy Answers (1998)
Leadership is no longer telling people what to do
Helping a group recognize its own problems
Michael Lipsky
Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services (1980)
John W. Kingdon
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (1984)
problems, policies, and politics
Cohen, March, and Olson
The Garbage Can Model (1972)
“collection of choices looking for problems and issues for which they might be the answer.”
Peter M. Senge
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ (1995)
Donald F. Kettl et al
Civil Service Reform
The Arbinger Institute
Leadership and self-deception: getting out of the box (2000)
Donald F. Kettl
The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century America
(2002)
Janet V. Denhardt and
Robert B. Denhardt
The New Public Service: Serving not Steering (2002)
Critique of NPM
Donald F. Kettl
Deficit Politics: The Search for Balance in American Politics (2003)
“Budgeting is perhaps the central political act”
Search for Rationaliy
Stephan Goldsmith and
Williams D. Eggars
Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector
Government is the facilitator not the provider of services