When Will They Have Had Enough
Here is the situation. It is 2004 and businesses from all sectors are still struggling. Wouldn’t you think by now that this wouldn’t be happening? Wouldn’t you think that there have been enough business books written that ‘show the way’ that managers would have figured out how to make their companies better? Wouldn’t you think that by now, the addiction to fire fighting and reactive thinking would have waned? Well, the reality is that for each of these questions, the answer is, ‘it hasn’t.’ And the reasons are scary.
Book Highlight: "Gaming the System"
by Dr James B. Rieley
Are your people busy fighting fires or lighting them? In any organisation, it is too easy for the system to become the end rather than the means; politics and the law of the in-tray drive behaviour, and well-intentioned targets deflect peoples activities. People using their ingenuity to manage the numbers and not the reality? They are just gaming the system.How can your business stop playing the organisational game and start playing the competitive game? This book presents a way for managers to understand the big picture of the system, showing how to explore, observe, and successfully play the political game that is constantly going on in business and financial markets. Also examines how and why people play this game, and how to mitigate and tackle its negative causes and effects.
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