On My Watch: Leadership, Innovation, and Personal Resilience - Couverture souple

Johnson, Martha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1940013089 ISBN 13 : 9781940013084

Editeur : Dudley Court Press, 2013

Synopsis

What Does It Take to Be a True Leader?

In April of 2012, a government scandal emerged over a GSA training conference in Las Vegas. Martha Johnson, woman leader and Administrator of the General Services Administration for President Obama, was compelled to resign her position to quell the angry turmoil during Obama's re-election campaign. Despite the uproar of that moment, Johnson asserts, the real story of GSA was of the extraordinary innovation underway at the agency. On My Watch: Leadership, Innovation & Personal Resilience illuminates her tenure in the Obama Administration and explains her leadership strategies of innovation, interruption, transparency, and design in the face of seemingly intractable problems.

Johnson describes inventive techniques such as SLAMs, Pull Metrics, flexible and collaborative workplaces, relationship leadership, and additional remarkable innovations that she and others brought to government. Johnson also emphasizes that leaders who change up the game are at risk. On My Watch discusses what happens when things fall apart and how leaders can resurface.

Johnson's provocative and highly effective strategies for challenging bureaucratic torpor combine with her intensely personal story of resilience to offer valuable insights for leaders who want to make a big difference in the world. On My Watch is recommended for managers and leaders in government, corporations and non-profits both for its fascinating presentation of innovative strategies and insights into leadership challenges and for the unusual opportunity to window into personal resilience as an element of successful leadership.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Johnson was nominated by President Obama and confirmed unanimously by the US Senate to be the Administrator of the General Services Administration, a position she held for two years. She also served eight years with the Clinton Administration and was appointed to two commissions with the British Government. Her private sector career has spanned the information technology, architecture, strategic consulting, and automotive industry. Currently she is president of American Corporate Partners, a veterans career mentoring non-profit. Johnson has delivered over 50 public speeches on topics including leadership, organizational transformation, sustainability, and government innovation. She has been featured repeatedly in the press and has testified before the US Congress on government effectiveness. Johnson was graduated with a BA from Oberlin College and an MBA from the Yale University School of Management. She is married, has two adult children, and resides in New York City and Annapolis, Maryland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dudley Court Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1940013089
• ISBN 13: 9781940013084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
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