If you want to help your city save more without cutting service levels, as Indianapolis did; if you need to do more with half the staff, as New Zealand's state-owned enterprises did; if you want to double the effectiveness of your organization, as the U.S. tactical Air Command didread this book.In the pages of Banishing Bureaucracy, David Osborne, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government, and Peter Plastrik, one of the most respected innovators to come out of state government in the past decade, provide a road map by which reinventors and political thinkers of all persuasions can actually make reinvention” work.Reinvention is not just another word for reform, nor is it synonymous with downsizing, or privatization, or simply cutting waste and fraud. It is about something much deeper, something tantamount to changing the very DNA” of public organizations so that they habitually innovate, continually improving their performance without having to be pushed from outside. It is about building an entrepreneurially minded public sector with a built-in drive to improvewhat some would call a self-renewing system.Obviously, this is complex work that requires careful strategy, and that is just what Banishing Bureaucracy provides. David Osborne and Peter Plastrik lay out what they call the Five Cs” for successfully reinventing public organizations:The Core Strategy, to help them create clarity of purpose.The Consequences Strategy, to introduce consequences for their performance.The Customer Strategy, to make them accountable to their customers.The Control Strategy, to empower organizations and their employers to innovate.The Culture Strategy, to change the habits, hearts, and minds of public employees.Drawing on a rich base of American and international case-studies, Banishing Bureaucracy delivers the battle-tested, strategic thinking that has proved itself around the globe, in every area of governmentfrom national to local, from defense to day care.

Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies For Reinventing Government

Plastrik, Peter

Osborne, David

Business & Money

Basic Books

Co-written by the co-author of the influential 1992 book, Reinventing Government, a practical plan for permanently changing public administrations promises to increase their effectiveness, efficiency, and capacity for innovation. Reprint.

Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Plume

Presenting more than 70 tools, The Reinventor's Fieldbook includes hundreds of practical "lessons learned," "do's and don'ts," "steps to take," and "pitfalls to avoid" in public management and governance. Based on dozens of case studies from five countries, it covers the waterfront of high-performance public organizations, including: customer choice and customer service standards, performance measurement, and performance budgeting; employee empowerment and labor-management partnerships; managed competition and asset privatization; partnerships with communities; culture change strategies; and administrative system reform.

The Reinventor's Fieldbook: Tools for Transforming Your Government

Marketing & Sales

Jossey-Bass

Something new and important is afoot. Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations are under increasing pressure to do more and to do better to increase and improve productivity with fewer resources. Social entrepreneurs, community-minded leaders, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropists now recognize that to achieve greater impact they must adopt a network-centric approach to solving difficult problems. Building networks of like-minded organizations and people offers them a way to weave together and create strong alliances that get better leverage, performance, and results than any single organization is able to do. While the advantages of such networks are clear, there are few resources that offer easily understandable, field-tested information on how to form and manage social-impact networks. Drawn from the authors’ deep experience with more than thirty successful network projects, Connecting to Change the World provides the frameworks, practical advice, case studies, and expert knowledge needed to build better performing networks. Readers will gain greater confidence and ability to anticipate challenges and opportunities. Easily understandable and full of actionable advice, Connecting to Change the World is an informative guide to creating collaborative solutions to tackle the most difficult challenges society faces.

Connecting to Change the World: Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact

Cleveland, John

Taylor, Madeleine

Management & Leadership

Island Press

The future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived its usefulness. It cannot solve the problems it helped to create—especially global warming. Fortunately, a new model for urban development is emerging in cities to aggressively tackle the realities of climate change. It transforms the way cities design and use physical space, generate economic wealth, consume and dispose of resources, exploit and sustain the natural ecosystems, and prepare for the future. In Life After Carbon, urban sustainability consultants Pete Plastrik and John Cleveland assemble this global pattern of urban reinvention from the stories of 25 "innovation lab" cities across the globe—from Copenhagen to Melbourne. A city innovation lab is the entire city—the complex, messy, real urban world where innovations must work. It is a city in which government, business, and community leaders take to heart the challenge of climate change and converge on the radical changes that are necessary. They free downtowns from cars, turn buildings into renewable-energy power plants, re-nature entire neighborhoods, incubate growing numbers of clean-energy and smart-tech companies, convert waste to energy, and much more. Plastrik and Cleveland show that four transformational ideas are driving urban climate innovation around the world, in practice, not just in theory: carbon-free advantage, efficient abundance, nature's benefits, and adaptive futures. And these ideas are thriving in markets, professions, consumer trends, community movements, and "higher" levels of government that enable cities. Life After Carbon presents the new ideas that are replacing the pillars of the modern-city model, converting climate disaster into urban opportunity, and shaping the next transformation of cities worldwide. It will inspire anyone who cares about the future of our cities, and help them to map a sustainable path forward.

Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities

Sociology

Si desea contribuir a que su ciudad ahorre mucho, muchísimo dinero, sin que por ello descienda el nivel de los servicios, tal como ocurrió en Indianápolis; si pronto se va a ver obligado a trabajar más con la mitad de los empleados que tiene ahora, como han hecho las empresas estatales neozelandesas; o simplemente si quiere duplicar la eficiencia de su organización, a la manera de la Jefatura del Departamento Táctico de las Fuerzas Aéreas de los Estados Unidos, sin lugar a dudas éste es su libro. Para empezar, los autores proporcionan a los pensadores políticos de todas las tendencias una guía con la que puedan llevar a cabo un verdadero trabajo de «reinvención». Pero luego aclaran que esta «reinvención» no equivale a «reforma», ni tampoco es un sinónimo de «redimensión», privatización o simple reducción del despilfarro y el fraude. Se trata de algo de mayor alcance, algo parecido a un cambio en el ADN de los organismos públicos gracias al cual la constante capacidad de innovación se convertiría en un proceso habitual y los rendimientos mejorarían continuamente sin necesidad de impulsos ni empujones. Es decir, lo que algunos llamarían un sistema que se renueva incesantemente a sí mismo. Por supuesto, ésta es una tarea compleja que exige un planteamiento cuidadoso, y eso es precisamente lo que proporciona este libro valiéndose de una gran abundancia de casos prácticos. Un planteamiento, en fin, que, tras haber sido sometido a prueba, ha demostrado su validez en todo el planeta y en todos los ámbitos de la administración pública, desde el nacional al local, pasando por la defensa y el servicio de guarderías.

La reduccion de la burocracia / The Reduction of Bureaucracy (Spanish Edition)

Paidos Iberica, Ediciones S. A.

Welcome to the Edge of Chaos: Where Change is a Way of Life

Neuroth, Joann

Science & Math

Independently published

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