Taking charge: A practical guide for leaders

Politics & Social Sciences

Perry M. Smith

Politics & Government

National Defense University Press

A practical guidebook for busy, executives who want to sharpen their leadership skills. In well-focused chapters, the author shares the insights he has gained from his many years of experience with international organizations.

Taking charge: Making the right choices

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.

Eminently readable, Assignment: Pentagon is the essential guide for the newly assigned military person, fresh civilian, and interested outsider to the Pentagon's informal set of arrangements, networks, and functions that operate in the service and joint service world. From the type of wristwatch one needs to how to succeed in the Joint Staff, the book delivers a wealth of practical advice and helpful hints about surviving the pressures and problems of working in "the Building."

Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureacracy

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Selected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List Since the first edition of Assignment: Pentagon was published in 1988, great changes have occurred in the international environment, the application of U.S. national security strategy, and the manner in which the Pentagon functions. Now in its fourth printing and with a coauthor to lend a different perspective, Assignment: Pentagon remains the best book for anyone who works for the Pentagon, or for any big bureaucracy for that matter. Eminently readable, Assignment: Pentagon is the essential guide for the newly assigned military person, fresh civilian, and interested outsider to the Pentagon’s informal set of arrangements, networks, and functions that operate in the service and joint service world. From the type of wristwatch one needs to how to succeed on the Joint Staff, the book delivers a wealth of practical advice and helpful hints about surviving the pressures and problems of working in “The Building.” If you’ve been assigned to the Pentagon or are starting work for any large company, you need Assignment: Pentagon.

Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy, 4th Edition

Daniel M. Gerstein

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