Book One in the Drain the Swamp Series
By Gary D. Stewart
Published: 12th October 2020
“This bold book addresses hitherto ‘undiscussable’ problems within the Defence bureaucracy and how they can be fixed. For all our sakes, let’s hope the right people at the top take it seriously” ~Dr Mark Rehn
Book Two in the Drain the Swamp Series
By Gary D. Stewart
“If you’ve ever wondered why so many Australian Innovators move overseas, this book will answer your questions!
Book Three in the Drain the Swamp Series
By Gary D. Stewart
“The book the old guard does not want you to read!”
Book Four in the Drain the Swamp Series
By Gary D. Stewart
“The book every Australian should read!”
Drain the Defence Swamp :
A Blueprint for Weapons Acquisition Reform
How to FIX every Product Development to be more Affordable, Producible and Problem-Free
“The book Defence does not want you to read”
Drain the Defence Swamp addresses life’s perennial struggle between good and evil in the context of Defence Weapons Acquisition. The competency issues it raises are also directly applicable to many other organisational and bureaucratic dilemmas.
The EVIL: As you read you will discover the why and how our Weapons Acquisition programs continue to deliver completely unaffordable cost blowouts and time delays and fail to deliver the promised capability.
The GOOD: This book offers a blueprint of reform that will overcome the ineptitude and deliver affordable and easily producible Defence Weapons Systems and drain the swamp.
Would you like to discover how the taxpayer and the warfighter can finally overcome the excuses and ‘this is as good as it gets’ mantras from the defence establishment? If so, read on and be prepared to add your voice to the discussion.
Drain the Innovation Swamp
A Blueprint for Innovation System Reform
How to FIX Innovation to Create & Execute a Constantly Evolving New Customer Line
Australia spends approximately $30 billion each year on innovation – and yet after twenty years of effort we are still the worst-ranking nation in the OECD for Commercialisation of Innovation.
How can this be?
Where does all that money go?
Why don’t we reap the positive economic results of all this expenditure?
The second book in Gary’s controversial “Drain the Swamp” Series answers these questions and many more. You may not like the answers.
The “Innovation Fraternity” does not want you to hear them.
Members of the Establishment will tell you they have never heard any of this… with good reason.
“It is only now that I have retired that am free to expose the nakedness of both the Emperor, and his Sacred Cows.”
Gary D. Stewart
Drain the Incompetence Swamp
A Blueprint for Reform
How to Reform Industry, Bureaucracy, & Politics to Transform our Economy and Society
Drain the Incompetence Swamp is a bold call for fundamental change in our leadership and systems from one of Australia’s most experienced organisational and operational systems facilitators. This book bluntly demonstrates the endemic level of leadership incompetence in Australia and the systems that support it which has brought us to our current state.
However, this level of incompetence does not exist in a vacuum… it is a team sport resulting from passive acceptance of mediocre outcomes by people over long periods of time.
The GOOD NEWS is that these problems can be permanently fixed using proven processes and systems. The BAD NEWS is that fixing these problems will demand a willingness to confront brutal realities and make fundamental changes with fierce determination.Are you up for the challenge?
Restart Australia
A Blueprint for Economic and Social Reform
A 10-year Easily-Executable Design to Transform the Future of our Nation’s Economy and Society
Restart Australia builds on the principles and analysis of the previous three books dealing with Defence Weapons’ Acquisition, Innovation, and Organisational Incompetence. Beginning with a brutal assessment of Australia’s current standing in the global economy and the reasons for this dismal performance, Gary goes on to provide a way forward that will deliver the social and economic results we want.
“This change will take courage and commitment, but it will also deliver the country we want to live in… and the country we want children and their children to enjoy.”
Gary D. Stewart