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1 online resource (xx, 236 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
PART I. What Was I Thinking? -- Intelligence Reform Unique Opportunity or Fool's Errand? -- Sliding Toward an Offer I Couldn't Refuse -- Blank White Board and Ticking Clock -- Building a Team and Building Support -- Translating Ideas into Actions -- Organizing Themes and Goals -- Think Big, Start Small, Fail Cheap, Fix Fast -- Taking Stock -- Training and Tradecraft -- Transforming the PDB into a Community Product -- Management of the Analysis Mission -- Transforming Analysis -- Roads Not Taken -- Reflections and Lessons -- PART II. Lessons for New Appointees -- Climbing Out of a Deep Hole -- Understanding the Challenge -- Components of a "Checklist" for New Appointees -- Importance of Context -- Scoping the Problem -- Building a Team -- Getting Everyone on the Same Page -- Start Fast -- Prioritizing Tasks -- Utilizing Strengths and Eschewing Unnecessary Fights -- No Magic Formula. |
| Summary |
"In From Mandate to Blueprint, Thomas Fingar offers a guide to new federal government appointees faced with the complex task of rebuilding institutions and transitioning to a new administration. Synthesizing his own experience implementing the most comprehensive reforms to the national security establishment since 1947, Fingar provides experience-based guidance to newly appointed officials. When Fingar was appointed the first Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis in 2005, he discovered the challenges of standing up a new federal agency and implementing sweeping reform of intelligence procedure and performance. The mandate required prompt action but provided no guidance on how to achieve required and desirable changes. Fingar describes how he defined and prioritized the tasks involved in building and staffing a new organization, integrating and improving the work of 16 agencies, and contending with pressure from powerful players. For appointees without the luxury of taking command of fully staffed and well-functioning federal agencies, From Mandate to Blueprint is an informed and practical guide for the challenges ahead"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fingar, Thomas.
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United States. Office of the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis.
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Intelligence service -- United States.
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Intelligence service. |
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United States. |
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Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management.
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Administrative agencies. |
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Administrative agencies -- United States -- Reorganization.
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Management. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International) |
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Administrative agencies -- Management. |
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Administrative agencies -- Reorganization. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Fingar, Thomas. From mandate to blueprint. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021 9781503628670 (DLC) 2020048156 |
| ISBN |
9781503628687 (electronic book) |
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150362868X (electronic book) |
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9781503628670 (paperback) |
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