Management

HIGH-PERFORMANCE GOVERNMENT Structure, Leadership, Incentives

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Leadership is addressed in three chapters. In Chapter 8, John Dumond and Rick Eden reexamine the broken system of presidential appointments. The current process is too slow, too expensive, and too erratic. The authors suggest an unexpected analogy: systems for providing spare parts. Dumond and Eden have led several RAND pro ects that created new, effective systems for speeding delivery of spare parts, reducing costs, and making supply systems more reliable. Their secret was building an interagency team that diagnosed problems, created measures of success, and devised and implemented new solu- tions. Dumond and Eden invite us to consider how a similar process might work for presidential appointments. As long as we don’t tell an aspiring assistant secretary that we are modeling his appointment after a replacement part for a tank, the suggestion just might work. At the very least, those who now are responsible for presidential appointments, as well as critics of the process, will find in this chapter something quite different (and quite a bit more useful) than the customary every-other-year critique and call to action.

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: ., 2005

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1-497

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0-8330-3740-4

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