Administrategy is a clever book with an important message: government strategy should and can work just like business strategy. Big ideas at the top must translate into motivation and behavior change throughout the organization. This books shows you how.

Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America

A practical, inspiring guide to public administration reform in Eastern Europe that urges managers to pursue public values at the same time as they develop personally fulfilling careers for themselves and their team. The authors borrow from the successes of private businesses in knowledge-intensive industries, but they stress the distinctive values and rewards of public service in national environments where there is much good work for committed strategic thinkers to accomplish.

Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University, Co-Director, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy

Innovation and proactiveness in our public institutions is not the goal that can be left for future generations. Administrategy shows public managers how, here and now, they can transform their agencies and institutions into learning, knowledge-based organizations. I recommend this inspiring read.

Robert Firmhofer, General Director of the Copernicus Science Center, Central Europe’s renown museum of science

Public administration requires constant improvement and is in permanent search for signposts. We try to improve our effectiveness, creatively engage in our tasks, and above all increase the satisfaction of our citizens. I have no doubts that Administrategy will become a good guide for us in that efforts.

Robert Biedron, Mayor of the City of Slupsk

In Central and Eastern Europe, we often still believe that the most talented individuals end up in business, where they can expect good salaries, recognition, and fame. Promoting the highest leadership and managerial standards in public administration plays a secondary role in our region, even though there is no well-functioning state without outstanding public administration. This book shows us how to catch up.

Slawomir Lachowski, bestselling author & former CEO of Commerzbank Poland

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Figuring out what ought to be done can be very difficult for any manager, public or private, but figuring out how to actually get it done and how to do it in a way that advances life goals is often even more difficult, as myriad ignored consultants’ reports and stalled bureaucratic careers can attest.  This unique book provides valuable advice for formulating, achieving and benefitting from governmental decisions.  Every aspiring government official should read it.

Michael E. Levine, NYU professor and former Dean of Yale School of Management

Innovative Administrategy is a goldmine of ideas, not only for making our agencies more effective, but also for the further, thoughtful development of our cities.

Zygmunt Frankiewicz, President of the Association of the Polish Cities

The effectiveness and efficiency of our public administration is largely determined by its people – both ordinary civil servants and managers. The latter, however, face the problem of the meagerness of our literature for public managers. Administrategy attempts to fill this gap. It offers a very interesting approach to the topic, especially in combining personal success of a manager with an organizational success.

Ludwik Wegrzyn, President of the Association of Polish Counties

Administrategy is a book for ambitious public managers, whose goal is not to fit in with the environment, but to shape it. The authors correctly diagnose the specificity of public-sector management. They recommend leveraging experiences of private businesses from the knowledge-based sector. An undoubted strength of this work is an intelligent synthesis of knowledge and experiences of public administration from many countries. Readers will also find here suggestions on how to combine the work for the common good with an individual career advancement of managers and their teams.

Andrzej Los, Union of Polish Metropolises

I believe that, for the last 20 years, I have enjoyed the support of the citizens of my town because I have instinctively implemented my administrategy. Now, for the first time in Poland, we are getting world’s best practices of public management collected in one book, and presented in a sharply practical and authentically engaging form.

Robert Perkowski, Mayor of the Town of Zabki since 1996