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From the previous secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed number-one best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically immediate, informed, and urgent examination of why big companies are faltering us and how smart, committed authority can effect real improvement irrespective of scale. Over the realms of civic and private organization equally, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday routine. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are crucial, yet People in the usa know these companies flunk. Many despair they are too large and too hard to reform. Robert Gates disagrees. Having led change successfully at three monumental organizations - the CIA, Texas A&M University or college, and the Division of Security - he offers us the best insider's look at how major bureaus, organizations, and companies can be changed, which is by turns heartening and uplifting and always instructive. With functional, nuanced advice on tailoring reform to the operative culture (we observe how Gates worked well within the machine to increase diversity at Texas A&M); effecting change within committees; interesting the power of compromise ("in the real world of bureaucratic companies, you almost never get all you have to when you wish it"); and tuning in and responding to your team, Gates brings the entire weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to civic responsibility to encourage others to lead frantically needed change.