Building A Winning Culture In Government. Patrick R. Leddin

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      Building

      A Winning Culture In Government

      Patrick R. Leddin, PhD

      shawn d. moon

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      Building a Winning Culture in Government: A Blueprint for Delivering Success in the Public Sector

      ISBN: (p) 978-1-63353-764-4

      BISAC POL030000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National

      Printed in the United States of America

      Table of Contents

       Introduction

       Chapter 1

       An Increasingly Pressurized Environment

       Chapter 2

       The Paradigm: Leadership Is a Choice, Not Just a Position

       It Starts With Culture

       Culture That Stays on Track

       A Culture That Is Derailed With Bad Leadership

       The Challenge of Human Capital

       Being Deliberate in Building Culture

       The People Behind the Activities

       How to Effectively Change Behaviors

       Five Key Practices to Success

Chapter 3

       The Need for Leaders at Every Level

       A Brief History of Leadership and Management

       Everyone Leads

       Chapter 4

       The Operating System That Builds Effective Leaders at Every Level

       The 7 Habits in Our Operating System

       Given a Choice, Would People Choose to Follow You?

       Habit 1—Be Proactive: Take Initiative and Responsibility for Results

       Habit 2—Begin With the End in Mind: Gain a Clear Sense of Mission

       Habit 3—Put First Things First: Focus on Getting the Right Things Done

       Habit 4—Think Win-Win: Provide Mutual Benefit by Respectfully Seeking to Benefit Others as Well as Yourself

       Habit 5—Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood: Empathize in Order to Understand People and Their Perspectives

       Habit 6—Synergize: Leverage the Gifts and Resources of Other People

       Habit 7—Sharpen the Saw: Keep Getting Better and More Capable; Never Stand Still

       Putting It All Together: Installing the 7 Habits as Your Personal Operating System

       The 7 Habits Operating System: Instructions for Downloading

       Chapter 5

       Practice 1: Lead With Purpose

       Find the Voice of the Organization

       Designing an Engaging Mission

       Get Aligned to the Mission

       Leading With Purpose: Instructions for Downloading

       Chapter 6

       Practice 2: Execute With Excellence

       The 4 Disciplines of Execution

       Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important

       Discipline 2: Act on the Lead Measures

       Determining Lead Measures

       Discipline 3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard

       Keeping It Going