Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureacracy

Author - USAF (Ret.), Maj. Gen. Perry M. Smith ... [Goo?] [Posters]

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1) Paperback Book Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureacracy by Potomac Books Inc.. This book is a great read for action officers and DoD staffers! I found it very helpful upon my recent assignment to the Pentagon. Must read for military and civilians working at operational and strategic levels of national defense! Many thanks to the author for their insights!¤

2) Paperback Book Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureacracy by Potomac Books Inc.. A great book, highly recommended for anyone working in the Pentagon! I´m in my first Pentagon tour, and found this book immensely useful. My initial impression of Pentagon life was professional bewilderment: totally new vocabulary, totally new set of concerns, different rules for doing business. Much more so than with most of my ´new´ jobs along the way, this one totally threw me off with with respect to the norms and expectations.

There are many courses for navigating these strange waters (most of which I´ve attended), but there´s so much to learn that these courses are primarily focused on the "What Is It, and How Does It Work?" level. The "What´s normal?" level is usually left off the end (due to time constraints), for the student to work out on his/her own. I´ve been blessed with very patient bosses, and have been allowed to work out ´normal´ for myself, but I frequently had so many questions that I´d hesistate asking them all at once. And then came Assignment Pentagon - a life saver.

I stumbled across Assignment Pentagon about three months into the job - 2-1/2 months too late! Once I started reading it, I couldn´t put it down - it spoke to my nagging questions and left me a MUCH better informed Action/Requirements Officer. The turn-around in professional understanding was so profound for me that I´ve been recommending it to anyone else that checks in here, and think it´s absolutely critical to understand the place you work in the depth that Assignment Pentagon delivers it.

Many thanks to the authors for putting this much-needed work together, and for keeping it updated. I only hope that they´re still updating it when I´ve got my next set of orders to the Pentagon.¤

3) Paperback Book Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureacracy by Potomac Books Inc.. This book was first published in the 1980s, and has been apparently revised as recently as March 2007. The edition I read comes from 2002. The book is interesting. It fulfills its billing as a straight guide to what is important inside the big five-sided building along the Potomac River.

Maj Gen Smith´s most interesting piece of insight comes about half way through in his discussion of the media and the Pentagon leadership. In discussing the role of the daily "Early Bird" news roundup, Gen Smith asserts that senior Pentagon leaders read the volume diligently, seeing the press not as an antagonist, but rather as a source of new and interesting takes on what they may or may not already know.

Unfortunately, Gen Smith has a bad habit of occasionally interjecting his personal opinion into his otherwise objective analysis. Also, even though the book says it was revised for 2002, it appears that many sections of the book have not been updated since its original publication 15 years earlier.

All in all, this is a solid, brief overview, of some of what goes through Pentagon employees heads on a daily basis. It is worth the read for that reason if for no other.
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4) Paperback Book Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureacracy by Potomac Books Inc.. I am the author of this book. When the new administration took office, it was time to update this book about how the Pentagon works, how to work with the Pentagon and how to work within the Pentagon. There is an enormous amount of misinformation about the Pentagon and what I have tried to do is stick to the realities and to destroy some of the myths. I have received many comments about this book. The most surprising ones have come from people who work in corporations who have told me that this book has given them lots of ideas about how improve their performance in their present jobs.¤

5) Paperback Book Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureacracy by Potomac Books Inc.. I am the author of this book. When the new administration took office, it was time to update this book about how the Pentagon works, how to work with the Pentagon and how to work within the Pentagon. There is an enormous amount of misinformation about the Pentagon and what I have tried to do is stick to the realities and to destroy some of the myths. I have received many comments about this book. The most surprising ones have come from people who work in corporations who have told me that this book has given them lots of ideas about how improve their performance in their present jobs.¤

6) Paperback Book Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureacracy by Potomac Books Inc.. Eminently readable, Assignment: Pentagon is the essential guide for the newly assigned military person, fresh civilian, and interested outsider to the Pentagon´s informal set of arrangements, networks, and functions that operate in the service and joint service world. From the type of wristwatch one needs to how to succeed in the Joint Staff, the book delivers a wealth of practical advice and helpful hints about surviving the pressures and problems of working in "the Building."¤

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