Transitions to Competitive Government: Speed, Consensus, and Performance (Human Comm Processes (Dis))

Describes how private-sector management strategies can help governments obtain greater access to global resources, create more jobs, and provide better social services to their citizens.

Transitions to Competitive Government demonstrates how government can add value to a region, a nation, a state, its citizens, and their social values through speed, consensus, and performance. It does this in three stages. First, it shows competitive government to be entrepreneurial in seeking resources, jobs, and social services. Second, it provides case studies that offer examples of the challenges faced, strategies utilized, and implementing processes employed by various levels of government. Third, it explicates a global benchmarking process for evaluating government reforms and their progress in yielding increased competitiveness.

Ronald B. Cullen is CEO of Performance Management Solutions, Australia. Donald P. Cushman is CEO of The Cushman Group and Professor Emeritus of Communication, University at Albany, State University of New York. He has written many books, including High-Speed Management and Organizational Communication in the 1990s: A Reader, coedited with Sarah Sanderson King, also published by SUNY Press.