Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government Book

David Osborne's 1992 bestseller, Reinventing Government, was a landmark book that identified ten principles for creating a more efficient government. This essential sequel goes one step further, focusing on strategic levers for changing public systems and organizations on a permanent basis to achieve dynamic increases in effectiveness, efficiency, adaptability, and capacity to innovate. In an age of disillusionment with public service, Banishing Bureaucracy offers inspiring stories of organizations that really work and provides specific recipes for effective change. Here is a road map by which reinventors can actually make "reinvention" work. ** David Osborne, recognized as the pre-eminent public sector reformer, has an intensive speaking schedule throughout the country. ** Named one of the Best Business Books of 1997 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries. ** Over 200,000 copies of Reinventing Government sold in Plume, with backlist pace of 10,000 per year. ** Reinventing Government was hailed by Business Week as "the new gospel of government," and was embraced by the Clinton-Gore administration as their blueprint for streamlining government.Read More