What Do We Do Now?: A Workbook for the President-Elect By Stephen Hess
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This is an amazingly detailed but simply written guide for OBAMA Aside diagrams and flowcharts is lots of detail about what the individual cabinet offices do and advice for the P E about what types of folks to hire 9780815736554 This book was both fun and educational By pretending to be the actual workbook given to a newly elected president it puts the reader in that role and asks some of the interesting yet generally unknown questions like What do you do the day after the election How will you handle staffing the overall transition How long will your inaugural speech be Which portraits will you hang in the Oval Office Will you work in the Oval Office or will it be purely ceremonial Great look behind the curtain 9780815736554
The period from Election Day to Inauguration Day in America seems impossibly short Newly elected U.
How we got to now book S presidents have less than eleven weeks to construct a new government composed of supporters and strangers hailing from all parts of the nation This unique and daunting process always involves at least some mistakes in hiring perhaps or in policy priorities or organizational design Early blunders can carry serious consequences well into a president s term minimizing them from the outset is critical In What Do We Do Now Stephen Hess draws from his long experience as a White House staffer and presidential adviser to show what can be done to make presidential transitions go smoothly Here is a workbook to guide future chief executives decision by decision through the minefield of transition You ll have to start at the beginning settling on a management style and knowing how to arrange all the boxes Something as seemingly mundane as parceling office space can be consequential hence the inclusion of a proposed White House organizational chart and floor plans of the West Wing What qualities are needed for each job and where are the best candidates for those positions most likely to be found How can you construct a cabinet that looks like America What Do We Do Now is your indispensable guide through the thicket of these decisions There are small decisions too You ll have to pick a desk photos of the choices are included Which presidential portraits should hang in the Oval Office Which ones have previous presidents chosen And when it comes time to write an inaugural address what should be the content theme and tone It s all here in the presidential transition workbook don t leave for Washington without it This concise volume is sure to be a valuable resource for the president and team of advisers as they attempt to herd cats into an effective government o W e Do Now is alsis also a delightful read for anyone interested in exactly how one goes about being the president of the United States What Do We Do Now A Workbook for the President Elect Librarian Note There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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