"The Kind of answers you'd get in an informal conversation with an old Pentagon hand." Armed Forces Journal International.

Assignment Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace (An Ausa Book)

Smith, Perry M.

Reference

Potomac Books Inc.

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 : The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace (An Ausa Book)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Clears up misconceptions about the Pentagon, offers advice on working there, and discusses ethical behavior

Assignment Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Pergamon-Brassey

Rules and Tools for Leaders offers insightful and useful advice that avoids the flavor-of-the-month management theories that are long on speculation and short on practical application. This is a fully revised, updated, and reorganized edition of a classic management handbook. It never loses sight of the big picture of how any company should operate. It provides useful and time-tested advice that can be implemented immediately to the benefit of the entire organization. From defining the qualities of outstanding leaders to putting good leadership skills into practice, from managing yourself and others to handling the difficult tests that leadership brings, this book includes valuable checklists and reviews. In addition, it highlights some of the best leadership programs and presents a host of compelling and instructive anecdotes that illustrate the ideas throughout.

Rules & Tools for Leaders: From Developing Your Own Skills to Running Organizations of Any Size, Practical Advice for Leaders at All Levels

Business & Money

Foley MA, General Jeffrey W.

Business Culture

TarcherPerigee

A down-to-earth guide to effective managing -- with quick-reference checklists.

Rules and Tools for Leaders

Perigee Trade

Rules &amp; Tools for Leaders has guided hundreds of thousands of leaders, showing them the ways to create and maintain growth and profitability. From hiring, firing and promoting to responding to major corporate crises, from day-to-day encounters to long-range strategic planning, Perry covers virtually every aspect of leadership and provides the means to get the job done—and done well.Along with a thorough understanding of group dynamics, business models, and ethical practices, Rules &amp; Tools for Leaders also features invaluable checklists and guidelines—providing everyday tools to put the tried-and-true rules into effect.

Rules and Tools for Leaders (Revised)

Management & Leadership

Perigee Books

Creating Strategic Vision: Long-Range Planning for National Security

Diane Pub Co.

A handy guide for leaders. Includes more than 25 checklists to help leaders and managers hire, fire, run meetings, plan, deal with the press, etc. Over 200,000 of this book in print.

Taking Charge: Making the Right Choices

Avery

Covers everything from being the boss to dealing with the boss, from making a smooth transition into a new position to leaving a post with dignity &amp; taking control of your schedule to sharing your power with able associates. Paper. DLC: Leadership.

The story of a true American hero who earned both the Carnegie Medal and the Medal of Honorl. As an undergraduate at Clemson he earned the Carnegie Medal for saving two women caught in a storm off the coast of South Carolina. Sixteen years later, as a Marine Lieutenant Colonel he went behind enemy lines to save four wounded Marines. For his extraordinary valor and leadership in combat he earned the Medal of Honor.

A Hero Among Heroes: Jimmie Dyess and the 4th Marine Division

Biographies & Memoirs

Marine

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Assignment Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace (An Ausa Book)

Assignment: Pentagon : The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace (An Ausa Book)

Assignment Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace

Rules & Tools for Leaders: From Developing Your Own Skills to Running Organizations of Any Size, Practical Advice for Leaders at All Levels

Rules and Tools for Leaders

Rules and Tools for Leaders (Revised)

Creating Strategic Vision: Long-Range Planning for National Security

Taking Charge: Making the Right Choices

Rules and Tools for Leaders

A Hero Among Heroes: Jimmie Dyess and the 4th Marine Division