Saving America
7 Proven Steps to Make Government Deliver Great Results
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- $54.99
Publisher Description
National polling indicates that for the first time in American history, people believe their children will not be as well off as they are. The primary reason for this? The lack of performance by government. The public sector receives trillions of American taxpayer dollars every year and yet because of its seeming inability to run effectively, government is not delivering the level of service the people are paying for. In Saving America, Mark Aesch tells us where government -- at the local, state, and federal level -- is falling short and offers a coherent, non-partisan, Seven-Step plan for rebuilding our nation's public agencies. The book is not a political broadside or a theoretical academic tract; it's an accessible guidebook that helps local citizens, elected officials, and administrators make American government great again. The Seven Steps process will lead to measurable gains for organizations large and small, including school systems, municipal governments, entire states, and even the federal government itself.
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Aesch (Driving Excellence), a public-sector business performance consultant, asserts that the United States is no longer a leader due to our government's "irresponsible, thoughtless, and unsustainable" spending. He lays out the seven-step plan that his company, TransPro, uses for transforming organizations, and suggests that these principles can fix government, saying boldly, "Let's go save America." His seven steps are, in fact, sound elements of basic business strategy with applicability to any type of organization. They include defining "success moments," creating a performance scorecard, and focusing on results rather than efforts. To illustrate these points, Aesch effectively draws on key historical moments, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Navy SEAL operation to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden, and WWII's Operation Overlord. Unfortunately, though he provides numerous examples of government incompetence or failure, including FEMA, Amtrak, and the Minnesota I-35 bridge collapse, he offers fewer examples of how government agencies or entities have actually applied his seven steps. References to his own company's work add credibility but leave the book feeling too much like a sales pitch.
