With today's technological advances, public finance officers have less to process on their own and more time to dedicate to the overall picture. An essential and crucial part of the picture is management.
If you're one of these public finance officers, this book is an essential read. Though you're technically already qualified for your role, there's always room to grow-especially in the realm of leadership and management. This is both a how-to and a how-to-think guide, and in it, Edward Anthony Lehan proposes and proves how models of management thinking and subsequent behavior can aid in the productivity of your supervision of finance-related service units.
When you begin to view your supervisory role as a management role-which Lehan argues it certainty is-then you can use the strategic concepts inherent in managerial models to better address issues of cost, availability, and productivity. In using values like those of the efficacy triad, you can better recover public capital and develop yourself into a better leader.
For anyone in the public finance industry, this book is required reading.
About the Author: Edward Anthony Lehan is the author of Public Budgeting, The Practice of Municipal Budgeting, Simplified Government Budgeting, Budgetary Thought for School Officials, Budgetmaking, and, most recently, Budgetary Thought for Budget Officers. He is a recipient of the Jesse Burkhead Award for his 1996 work "Budget Appraisal-the Next Step in the Quest for Better Budgeting?" For his work as coauthor of the 1967 article "Rebuilding a City: Modest Adventures in Hartford," he received the Louis Brownlow Award.
Lehan became a seasoned public finance officer through his long and successful career as a budget director, tax collector, treasurer, and triple-time finance director. He has also served as a senior local government administrator and taught higher education. He acts in a consulting capacity, engaging with numerous governments both nationally and internationally.
