– Bare tittelen på denne boka er verdt et godt terningkast, og innholdet er ikke dårligere. Her er en rekke essays som kan hjelpe ledere og nøkkelpersoner i bedrifter og organisasjoner med å se hvilken rolle de spiller i sine egne fiaskoer. Mislykkede personer og handlinger har alltid gitt humorister utallige former for inspirasjon, og dette er en svært morsom bok, selv om den neppe er skrevet for å være morsom. Her er også mye god psykologi, og de fleste vil kunne kjenne seg igjen i episoder som beskrives. Her er det mye å lære, samtidig som man blir skikkelig underholdt.
How Come Every Time I Get Stabbed in the Back My Fingerprints Are on the Knife?
"Jerry Harvey has the uncanny ability of observing the ordinary yetseeing the extraordinary. His insights are both provocative anduseful, no common combination. Reading this book, you will learn tosee the world through another lens." (W. Warner Burke)
"Here are real organizational worlds both terrifying and hilarious,where people say and do things that they don't do anywhere else,and feel things that they don't feel anywhere else, and fortunatelyJerry Harvey is there, too, to record it, reflect on it, and helpus learn from it. Bless him!" (Peter Vaill, professor and holder ofthe Distinguished Chair in Management Education, University of St.Thomas, Minnesota)
"A decade ago, Jerry Harvey's Abilene Paradox indelibly entered thelexicon as a metaphor for unproductive group behavior. Now, he'sidentified an equally damaging-and paradoxical-pattern ofindividual self-destruction. And, once again, he offers the sameinvaluable prescription: Tell the truth to everyone?especiallyyourself. Ah, if only this time we will listen." (James O'Toole,author, Leadership A to Z)
The role we each play in our own downfalls create the profound-and profoundly entertaining-basis for this series of linked "meditations" as the author of The Abilene Paradox takes another irreverent look at the nature of life on the job. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780787947873
- Utgivelsesår
- 1999
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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"Jerry Harvey has the uncanny ability of observing the ordinary yetseeing the extraordinary. His insights are both provocative anduseful, no common combination. Reading this book, you will learn tosee the world through another lens." (W. Warner Burke)
"Here are real organizational worlds both terrifying and hilarious,where people say and do things that they don't do anywhere else,and feel things that they don't feel anywhere else, and fortunatelyJerry Harvey is there, too, to record it, reflect on it, and helpus learn from it. Bless him!" (Peter Vaill, professor and holder ofthe Distinguished Chair in Management Education, University of St.Thomas, Minnesota)
"A decade ago, Jerry Harvey's Abilene Paradox indelibly entered thelexicon as a metaphor for unproductive group behavior. Now, he'sidentified an equally damaging-and paradoxical-pattern ofindividual self-destruction. And, once again, he offers the sameinvaluable prescription: Tell the truth to everyone?especiallyyourself. Ah, if only this time we will listen." (James O'Toole,author, Leadership A to Z)