Description: Doig and Hargrove outline a perspective on leadership in government that emphasizes entrepreneurship, showing how government executives' ability to set goals, generate support inside and outside the bureaucracy, and implement innovative ideas--even at risk to their own careers--can have a significant impact on their organizations and on society.
Brief description: Jameson W. Doig is professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University and coauthor of Men Who Govern and The Assistant Secretaries.
Review Quotes: Many of our high-ranking officials in public life have been as innovative and influential as those in the private sector. However, this book is no simple upbeat tract of inspired tales; it is a thoroughly researched, closely argued blend of theory and biography.
--David B. Sicilia, Public Historian