The Keys to a Successful Presidency

by Alvin Felzenberg and Alvin S. Felzenberg

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891950931
• ISBN13: 9780891950936
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Published in 2000, Essential Reference but Outdated and Incomplete

I am spending most of my time, in the course of publishing three edited works and my own on "War & Peace: Seventh Generation Intelligence," thinking about how to radically redirect the organization of both the Presidency and Congressional jurisdictions. I consider David Abshire to be one of the top thinkers on this subject. The book covers, in fast easy to read fashion: 1) Achieving a Successful Transition 2) Running the White House 3) Staffing a New Administration 4) Turning the President's Agenda into Administration Policy 5) Enacting a National Security Agenda 6) Working with Congress to Enact an Agenda 7) Managing the Largest Corporation in the World 8) Building Public Support for the President's Agenda Each of the above chapters has between three and five sub-chapters, none long, all drawing on substantive past performers. Now here is what is NOT in this book: 1) How to achieve a deep understanding of a complex world in which nation-states are devolving and new assemblages including social business, social entrepreneurship, and bottom-up citizen social networks are self-governing, creating wealth, and policing corporations. In other words, there is not INTELLIGENCE chapter in this book. (search for for a free answer. 2) Chapter 4 neglects to discuss the role of the Office of Management and Budget, which dropped the Management part of its role sometime back in the 1970's as best I can tell. Since the Comptroller General has declared the US insolvent as of 2007, and the Bush-Cheney regime has put the country into a 9 trillion debt and a 40 trillion future unobligated deficiency, this should be the most important part of the next President's staff, and it better have someone at the top that understands the ten threats, twelve policies, and eight challengers, and the spine to redirect money from secret satellites to open education; from a heavy metal military to waging peace; and from corporate subsidies to infrastructure and other homefront priorities. I recommend Colin Gray's book (or see my review), Modern Strategy and Tony Zinni's latest book, The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose. Free online are my Army War College presentations and chapters on "Presidential Leadership" and "An Alternative Paradigm for National Security." 3) The national security chapter is very disappointing. I will just list a handful of books that must be already in the mind of the National Security Advisor before Inauguration: The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People The Search for Security: A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone The leadership of civilization building: Administrative and civilization theory, symbolic dialogue, and citizen skills for the 21st century How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition The Wealth of Networks: Ho