After the Disaster: Simplifying the Municipal Recovery Effort
The series of recent major disasters seems extraordinary. During a disaster, the community often comes together as never before, and...
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Book Review
Extreme Government Makeover, Ken Miller
Extreme Government Makeover by Ken Miller, 2011.
Every government manager should read this book. It is not the same old management solutions repackaged a different way, but a new way of looking at government processes. It gets at the crux of where time, quality and money get lost, and how to go about recovering them.
This book addresses how we look at our organization verses how we should look at our organization (and the same goes for our employees), and how we try to fix things verses what we should really do.
I pull a few good quotes from the books I read. In this relatively short book, I ended up with three times as many quotes as usual. One of my favorites is: “Nearly every phone call we get in the public sector is a defect; that is, it shouldn't have happened . . . Great customer service means never having to call."
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