Banishing Bureaucracy
Title | Banishing Bureaucracy PDF eBook |
Author | David Osborne |
Publisher | Plume Books |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN |
The sisters are back in full form--ready, willing, and able to lend their shared wisdom, encouragement, and homegirl attitude to help women get through the minute-to-minute obstacle course called daily living.
Banishing Bureaucracy
Title | Banishing Bureaucracy PDF eBook |
Author | David Osborne |
Publisher | Blitzprint Incorporated |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780976702603 |
David Osborne's 1992 bestseller, Reinventing Government, was a landmark book that identified ten principles characteristic of innovative, entrepreneurial, 21st century public organizations and governance. This essential sequel goes one step further, outlining five strategies that have the power to transform public systems and organizations into such organizations, thereby achieving dramatic 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.
Reinventing Government
Title | Reinventing Government PDF eBook |
Author | David Osborne |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 1993-02-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0452269423 |
"A landmark in the debate on the future of public policy."—The Washington Post.
The Reinventor's Fieldbook
Title | The Reinventor's Fieldbook PDF eBook |
Author | David Osborne |
Publisher | Jossey-Bass |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000-07-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780787943325 |
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.
Laboratories of Democracy
Title | Laboratories of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | David Osborne |
Publisher | Harvard Business Review Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Competition, International |
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Reinventing America's Schools
Title | Reinventing America's Schools PDF eBook |
Author | David Osborne |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2017-09-05 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1632869918 |
From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.
Political Decisions and Agency Performance
Title | Political Decisions and Agency Performance PDF eBook |
Author | R. Torenvlied |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1999-12-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780792360926 |
All over the world, many people who live in urban areas find themselves in an arduous social situation. In the third world, people in overcrowded metropolitan areas have a problem in maintaining even the slightest standards of living. But also richer parts of the world, the United States, Europe and the far-East, show growing social inequalities in their cities. And social problems are not confined to the large metropolitan areas: impoverishment, long-term unemployment, social isolation, and the dependency on welfare programs pops up in medium-sized cities and even in smaller communities. At the same time, these cities are confronted with a growing bureaucratic conglomerate which is increasingly inapt to fight social degeneration. The catastrophe seems to be total: how to deal at once with declining social conditions and bureaucratic inadequacy? Two American authors, Osborne and Plastrik (1997), claim to have found the answer: just banish bureaucracy. The liberating accomplishments of the free market will elevate ordinary citizens and force lazy, incompetent bureaucrats to do their work properly. If they succeed, they survive. Otherwise, these agencies will vanish. They illustrate their arguments with the American city of 'Uphill Battle' which stopped its decline by reinventing government. Strict performance measures, allotting financial controls and incentives to the citizens, and improving accountability have saved the city. We should, however, be very careful in taking such measures so far that they banish bureaucracy. It is far from obvious that simply banishing bureaucracy indeed will help people in poor social situations.