Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government

In this sequel to his bestseller, Reinventing Government, David Osborne teams with Peter Plastrik to further explore the process of making public and governmental organizations more entrepreneurial by introducing businesslike practices. The authors focus on five strategies for fundamentally changing the way government works on local, state, regional and national levels, and give plenty of real-life global success stories. This organizational, economic and political tour de force is wonderfully written, and is never dry, academic or reliant on dense government gabble. In fact, it's a page-turner. We recommend it to all concerned citizens.

Although less popular than his earlier "Reinventing Government," Osborne's "Banishing Bureaucracy" has much more to offer. This book tells you how to reinvent government and offers many helpful examples. For leaders who want to actually DO something to improve trust and confidence in government, Banishing is the guidebook for you.

Although less popular than his earlier "Reinventing Government," Osborne's "Banishing Bureaucracy" has much more to offer. This book tells you how to reinvent government and offers many helpful examples. For leaders who want to actually do something to improve trust and confidence in government, Banishing is a book for you.

If you work in a school or another government institution, and if every Dilbert cartoon is one you want to cut out and post, then read this book. Working in an absurd environment is funny on the surface but it also can be deeply depressing. This books shows us how we can do something about it.This is a handbook for fighting the good fight for the return of a little sanity in the government workplace.

I loved the book. I bought a copy for all of my government friends