Tips, Tools and Tactics for Delivering Timely and Transformational Results.
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Close the gap between what governments promise and what they actually deliver.
Build the A-teams, agendas, and governance systems that turn intent into action.
Track performance with real indicators and deliver transformational outcomes.
Across many countries, ambitious development plans and reform programmes begin with great promise but struggle during implementation. The missing ingredient is rarely vision; it is execution.
Disruptive Governance examines the institutional barriers that prevent officials — elected, appointed, and career officers — from translating policy into measurable impact, and offers practical approaches to building systems that improve performance, strengthen accountability, and ensure reforms deliver lasting value.
The book introduces practical strategies for:
Disrupt your first 100 days in public office — and the terms that follow.
Build a public agenda, an A-team, and governance systems built to deliver.
Strengthen the systems and institutions that turn policy into action.
Track government performance with clear, measurable indicators.
Improve accountability across ministries, departments, and agencies.
Deliver timely, sustainable, and transformational results.
Governments face rising pressure to deliver better services, faster reforms, and greater accountability — nowhere more so than across Africa.
In Disruptive Governance, readers will discover:
Why execution — not vision — is the greatest challenge facing public officers and the institutions they govern.
Practical tools for results-based governance — whether you're a principal (chief executive) or an appointee.
Frameworks for officers and institutional performance tracking.
Strategies for improving accountability, implementation, and outcomes.
Approaches to creating governments that consistently deliver measurable impact.
Effective governance must be intentional, data-driven, and anchored on measurable outcomes if it is to deliver real value to citizens.
Governance strategist, public sector reform expert, and founder of the System Strategy and Policy Lab (SSPL).
For over 20 years, Dr. Murtala has advised governments and development partners on institutional performance, policy implementation, and evidence-driven governance. His career includes serving as Education Specialist with UNICEF and Education Adviser with DFID/FCDO, supporting 22 State Governors, six Federal Ministers, and leaders across 25 Nigerian states.
He has contributed to major development programmes, including the £36 million UK-funded MAFITA youth empowerment initiative and Kano State's Conditional Cash Transfer for Girls' Education, and led the Nasarawa State Youth Empowerment Scheme (NAYES) as Special Assistant to the Governor between 2013 and 2015.
Dr. Murtala holds a PhD in Rural Geography, an MSc in Ecology and Environmental Sustainability as a Chevening Scholar, an MA in Development Studies, and a BSc (Ed.) in Biological Sciences. Between 2023 and 2025, he was recognised as an SDGs Goalkeeper by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, representing his work at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
What ministers, strategists, and development leaders are saying about Disruptive Governance.
Disruptive Governance is a timely and intellectually grounded contribution to the evolving discourse on public sector reform in Nigeria.
Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, fsi
Honourable Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Sharp, practical, and written without apology, Disruptive Governance is the blueprint every reform-minded leader wishes they had on day one.
Barr. (Dr.) Chioma Uzodimma, FIMC, CMC
First Lady of Imo State and Founder, Good Hope Women Flourish Initiative
Drawing from years on the front lines of governance, the book was born out of a simple but urgent question: How can public institutions turn disruption into a force for better performance and responsive service delivery?
Dakuku Peterside, PhD
Leadership and Public Policy Strategist; Author of Leading in a Storm, Beneath the Surface, and Strategic Turnaround
Provocative, insightful, and powerfully written, this book is essential reading for elected and appointed leaders, policymakers, students, reformers, and anyone committed to transforming organisations, institutions, and societies for the better.
Hussaini Abdu, PhD
International Development and Humanitarian Specialist; Country Director of CARE International in Nigeria
Dr. Murtala Adogi Mohammed presents practical tools, strategies, and real-world insights for leaders who want to move beyond rhetoric and deliver measurable results.
Barr. Ismaeel Ahmed, OON
Executive Chairman, Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Electric Vehicles (EV)
What if the greatest obstacle to development is not the absence of resources, but the absence of leaders who know how to convert vision into measurable results?
Abdulrauf Aliyu
Public Policy and Strategic Foresight Expert | Lead Strategist, Fringe Insight LLP
Murtala Adogi Mohammed has given us insight into the future. People in leadership positions and especially those aspiring for leadership in the public or private sectors will find the book a necessary guide. Things keep changing at the speed of thought and we must keep apace or perish.
Murtala Muhammad Aliyu
Former Minister of State for Power and Steel
Rather than abstract theory, the book gives public officials, policymakers, administrators, and development practitioners practical knowledge to:
Design governance systems built around execution, not just policy.
Improve institutional performance and the services citizens receive.
Develop accountability mechanisms that turn intent into outcomes.
Measure policy implementation using practical performance frameworks.
Lead transformational reforms across public institutions.
Government leaders and policymakers (elected and appointed alike)
Civil servants and public administrators
Development practitioners and international development partners
Governance consultants and institutional reform specialists
Researchers, academics, and students of public policy
Political leaders committed to improving public sector performance
Anyone building governments that deliver measurable results across Africa
Order today and gain access to the frameworks, tools, and strategies that help institutions move from policy to measurable results.
Bulk purchases and institutional orders are available at discounted rates for government agencies, development organisations, corporate leadership programmes, and policy training centres.
