On my watch
Subtitle: leadership, innovation, & personal resilience
By: Martha Johnson
Publisher: Dudley Court Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sonoita, AZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781940013084; 9781940013015; 9781940013091
Subjects: Management; Reorganization; Leadership; Organizational change; Resilience (Personality trait); Administrative agencies; Public administration; Bureaucracy; Politics and government; United States. General Services Administration; United States
Description: Compelled to resign to quiet the election year uproar over the management of a training conference in Las Vegas, Martha Johnson, former Administrator of GSA (2010-2012), reveals the larger story of innovation underway in the agency. "On My Watch" illuminates her tenure in the Obama Administration and explains her leadership strategies of interruption, transparency, design, and blockbuster moves in the face of bureaucratic myopia, alongside her highly personal story of resilience, providing valuable lessons for leaders who want to make a big difference in the world.--Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the GSA back-story; title: pt. 1. Steering the ship forward. Leading in the dark; title: Leading at scale; title: Leading under oath; title: Leading with blockbuster ideas; title: pt. 2. Walking the plank. On my watch; title: After my watch; title: pt. 3. Surfacing. The strategy of surprise; title: My crucible experience.