01165pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002800040245007500068260000900143300001300152362000800165520067300173650004200846650004200888650002600930773005100956180718b1997   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGolembiewski, Robert T.  aAs the NPR twig was bent: objectives, strategic gaps, and speculations  c1997  ap.139-81  aJan  aThis essay directs critical attention at the National Performance Review, which is seen as seriously flawed. NPR objectives get attention, and especially to provide a context for three strategic gaps in NPR texts. These gaps deal with values, structure, and interaction, in turn, and are in turn curious, consequential, and even crucial, for reasons that are illustrated by selective developments from research, experience, and theory. The essay concludes with several speculations that do double-duty: they permit some insight about those two gaps in NPR texts, and they generally diminish the credibility of proposals in the texts containing these gaps. - Reproduced  aAdministrative reform - United States  aPublic administration - United States  aAdministrative reform  aInternational Journal of Public Administration