As we approach the last several weeks of December, our plan is to take a full vacation starting on December 14, continuing through New Year’s Day.
With the assumption that other performance measurement and program evaluation lovers will be looking for results-oriented inspiration over the holidays, we’re now presenting our third installment of books (and a couple of journal articles) recommended by the many government performance experts who have enthusiastically shared their favorite book suggestions with us.
This list does not repeat any recommendations that were made in our previous B&G Reports, which started with, A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance, in which performance management expert John Kamensky generously shared recommendations with our readers, based on his decades of experience at the GAO, the IBM Center for the Business of Government and the National Partnership for Reinventing Government.
That inspired multiple other experts -- David Ammons, Maria Aristigueta, Marc Holzer, Michael Jacobson, Andrew Kleine, Aroon P. Manoharan, and Robert Shea. to introduce their own recommendations in our Performance Reader’s Guide (Part 2), which also included identifications of each of these individuals.
In this edition, we’ve drawn from the same sources, but have also added contributions from Don Moynihan, who recently left the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University to become a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
The recommendations below start with three books with outlooks that extend beyond government. These are followed by others that are more directly targeted at the public sector, ending with a couple of non-book offerings.
Enjoy – and have a pleasant holiday.
Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, W.W. Norton & Company, (2004)
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, Penguin Books (2009) and the more recent revision, Thaler and Sunstein, Nudge: The Final Edition, Penguin Books (2021.
Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Penguin (2009)
Ken Miller, Extreme Government Makeover: Increasing Our Capacity to Do More Good, Governing Management Series, 2011
David Ammons and Dale Roenigk, Tools for Decision Making: A Practical Guide for Local Government, Third Edition, Routledge (2021)
Results for America’s Evaluation Policy Guide, (a free book-length pdf) (2024)
Anton Gardner, John Pickering, Philip Harnden, and Gerald Brokaw, Building High-Performance Local Governments: Case Studies in Leadership at All Levels, (Greenleaf Book Group)
Oliver James, Asmus Les Olsen, Donald P. Moynihan, and Gregg G. Van Ryzin, Behavioral Public Performance: How people make sense of government metrics, Cambridge University Press (2020)
The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Managing for Results in Government
Jakob Majlund Holm, Successful Problem Solvers? Managerial Performance Information Use to Improve Low Organizational Performance, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 28 (3), 303320, open access version (2018)
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