The performanceStat potential : a leadership strategy for producing results

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The performanceStat potential : a leadership strategy for producing results

Robert D. Behn

(Innovative governance in the 21st century / Gowher Rizvi, series editor)

Brookings Institution Press, c2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

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

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