The Performancestat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

ISBN-13: 9780815725275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 413 str.

Robert D. Behn

Opis

It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat--the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments at all levels employ PerformanceStat: a focused effort by public executives to exploit the power of purpose and motivation, responsibility and discretion, data and meetings, analysis and learning, feedback and follow-up--all to improve government's performance. Here, Harvard leadership and management guru Robert Behn analyzes the leadership behaviors at the core of PerformanceStat to identify how they work to produce results. He examines how the leaders of a variety of public organizations employ the strategy--the way the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services uses its DPSSTATS to promote economic independence, how the City of New Orleans uses its BlightStat to eradicate blight in city neighborhoods, and what the Federal Emergency Management Agency does with its FEMAStat to ensure that the lessons from each crisis response, recovery, and mitigation are applied in the future. How best to harness the strategy's full capacity? The PerformanceStat Potential explains all.

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Contents

1. CompStat and its PerformanceStat Progeny

2. Searching for PerformanceStat

3. Clarifying PerformanceStat

4. Distinguishing CompStat's Effects

5. Committing to a Purpose

6. Establishing Responsibilities plus Discretion

7. Distinguishing PerformanceStat's Effects

8. Selecting and Collecting the Data

9. Analyzing and Learning From the Data

10. Conducting the Meetings

11. Carrying Out the Feedback and Follow-Up

12. Creating Organizational Competence and Commitment

13. Learning to Make the Necessary Adaptations

14. Thinking about Cause and Effect

15. Appreciating Leadership's Causal Behaviors

16. Making the Leadership Commitment