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    Assignment: Pentagon
    How to Excel in a Bureaucracy

    Maj. Gen. Perry M. Smith (Author), Daniel M. Gerstein (Author)

    9781640123564

    Paperback / softback, published 1 September 2020

    296 pages, 4 illustrations, 5 appendixes, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.39 kg

    “Should be stamped ‘MUST READ’ and provided to every person headed for a job in the Pentagon.”-Gen. John A. Wickham, U.S. Army (Ret.)
     
    “A wealth of practical information.”-Marine Corps Gazette
     
     
    “The kind of information you’d get in an informal conversation with an old Pentagon hand.”-Armed Forces Journal International
     
    “All military services should add it to their recommended reading lists.”-U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings
     
    “Loaded with anecdotes, management and leadership principles, and get-ahead techniques that can be applied effectively to private as well as public service.”-Airpower Journal

     
    “Unlocks the language and customs of The Building.”-Washingtonian
     

    Selected for the 2019 Commandant’s Professional Reading List, Assignment: Pentagon takes the reader on an insider’s tour of the Pentagon, describing how the headquarters for the world’s largest multinational “corporation” functions. The reader gains insights into how this bureaucracy functions as well as the stresses and strains inherent to such a complex organization. Now in its fifth edition, Assignment: Pentagon remains the best practical guide for anyone who works for the Pentagon or any other large bureaucracy.

    Eminently readable, Assignment: Pentagon is the essential guide for the newly assigned military person, fresh civilian, or interested outsider to the Pentagon’s informal set of arrangements, networks, and functions that operate in the service and joint service world. With updated information about jobs and Pentagon vernacular, this fifth edition delivers a wealth of practical advice and helpful hints about surviving the challenges of working in “the Building.” If you’ve been assigned to the Pentagon or are starting work for any large company, you need to read Assignment: Pentagon.
     
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