How to Manage in the Public Sector

"How to Manage in the Public Sector" offers practical advice to public sector managers on how to develop techniques to deal with the challenges they face, particularly in the areas of accountability, setting targets, risk management/encouraging innovation, managing people, decision making and working with politicians. It is based on the author's experience of advising more than 150 public sector organisations as well as interviews with senior public sector managers including the last four cabinet secretaries and politicians. It is full of anecdotes, actionable lessons and insights.

Each chapter takes a specific aspect of management and starts by explaining why it is different in the public sector, then sets out ways for public sector managers to handle those differences and ends with an executive summary and a checklist to prompt managers to think about how they might change what they currently do.