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Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government

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For those who live in "Uphill Battle" and who are weary of attempts to improve or change it -- or who have given up entirely and become skeptical and disillusioned -- Banishing Bureaucracy is not pie-in-the-sky theories and generalities. Every precept of reinventing is richly illustrated from the real-life battles of actual people in state, local and national governments. The book focuses on strategies and steps that were used to reinvent government under some very rough circumstances. While the book cautions that there are no set formulas when one tackles the bureaucracy beast, there are five strategies which work. If you think reinventing is a worn-out cliché, no longer applicable to the reality of government, get a copy of Banishing Bureaucracy and look at the transformation of government that is going on behind the scenes. Largely ignored by the media, it should be of profound interest to those seeking good ideas and better government.

This book is a classic for those interested in government performance and ways to improve; classic storys and examples to follow, or not to follow.

If you work in a school or another government institution, and if every Dilbert cartoon is one you want to cut out and post, then read this book.

Working in an absurd environment is funny on the surface but it also can be deeply depressing. This books shows us how we can do something about it.

This is a handbook for fighting the good fight for the return of a little sanity in the government workplace.

In this sequel to his bestseller, Reinventing Government, David Osborne teams with Peter Plastrik to further explore the process of making public and governmental organizations more entrepreneurial by introducing businesslike practices. The authors focus on five strategies for fundamentally changing the way government works on local, state, regional and national levels, and give plenty of real-life global success stories. This organizational, economic and political tour de force is wonderfully written, and is never dry, academic or reliant on dense government gabble. In fact, it's a page-turner. We recommend it to all concerned citizens.

Although less popular than his earlier "Reinventing Government," Osborne's "Banishing Bureaucracy" has much more to offer. This book tells you how to reinvent government and offers many helpful examples. For leaders who want to actually DO something to improve trust and confidence in government, Banishing is the guidebook for you.

Although less popular than his earlier "Reinventing Government," Osborne's "Banishing Bureaucracy" has much more to offer. This book tells you how to reinvent government and offers many helpful examples. For leaders who want to actually do something to improve trust and confidence in government, Banishing is a book for you.

Do yourself a favor and buy a case of this book and pass it around your nearest bureaucratic enclave (i.e. city hall/state capitol/etc...)

Some of it seems like your typical management seminar type material, but it has a great amount of useful information.

I loved the book. I bought a copy for all of my government friends

Well, the Vice President loved it and the President bought into it, but it did not make a difference. The National Performance Review identified a number of substantive objectives for intelligence reform, and the intelligence bureaucracy was successful in ignoring the White House. I suspect it has something to do with one of the fundamentals: "Unleash-but Harness-the Pioneers." The U.S. Intelligence Community can't stand pioneers unless they are spending billions of dollars on something really, really secret that has a high probability of failure. Reinvention boils down to uncoupling or deconstructing a whole bunch of stuff, and then allowing the pieces to compete. It requires managers that can "let go" and employees that can "take hold." Above all, it requires openness and accountability....

What a ridiculously silly book -- if only the authors were trying to write humor! This book says more about why government doesn't work than why it does. It is laced with buzzwords and management consultant mumbo jumbo. It couldn't make less sense.