1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910554261403321

Autore

Fingar Thomas

Titolo

From mandate to blueprint : lessons from intelligence reform / / Thomas Fingar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5036-2868-X

9781503628670

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages)

Disciplina

353.075

Soggetti

Administrative agencies - United States - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- PROLOGUE Purpose and Perspective -- INTRODUCTION From Mandate to Blueprint -- 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 -- The 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 -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

In From Mandate to Blueprint, Thomas Fingar offers a guide for 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 crucial 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 establishing a new federal agency and implementing sweeping reforms 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 sixteen 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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792837803321

Autore

Wills John <1971->

Titolo

Disney culture [[electronic resource] /] / John Wills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8135-8333-0

0-8135-8334-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 pages)

Collana

Quick takes: Movies and Popular Culture

Classificazione

PER004030SOC022000SOC052000

Disciplina

384/.80979494

Soggetti

Corporate culture

Walt Disney Productions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Making Disney Magic -- 2. The World According To Disney -- 3. Disney Dollars -- 4. Disney Values -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Index -- About The Author

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past century, Disney has grown from a small American animation studio into a multipronged global media giant. Today, the



company's annual revenue exceeds the GDP of over 100 countries, and its portfolio has grown to include Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, ABC, and ESPN. With a company so diversified, is it still possible to identify a coherent Disney vision or message? Disney Culture proposes that there is still a unifying Disney ethos, one that can be traced back to the corporate philosophy that Walt Disney himself developed back in the 1920's. Yet, as cultural historian John Wills demonstrates, Disney's values have also adapted to changing social climates. At the same time, the world of Disney has profoundly shaped how Americans view the world. Wills offers a nuanced take on the corporate ideologies running through animated and live-action Disney movies from Frozen to Fantasia, from Mary Poppins to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But Disney Culture encompasses much more than just movies as it explores the intersections between Disney's business practices and its cultural mythmaking.  Welcome to "the Disney Way."