Product Description
A decade ago, The Oz Principle took the business world by storm. At its root, the principle works like this: Like Dorothy and the gang in The Wizard of Oz, most businesspeople have the tools to succeed, but when things go wrong they blame circumstance or others instead of looking within for the true cause of unsatisfactory results. Once individuals learn to accept responsibility, they can use the Oz Principle to become better leaders.
Now, with corporate scandals in the headlines and the culture of victimization running rampant at every level of the business world, Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig Hickman return with a new edition of The Oz Principle. Fully revised, this edition will update the statistics, concepts, and relevant companies through fresh, timely anecdotes and stories.
The Oz Principle: Getting Results through Individual and Organizational Accountability
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the book is good, unfortunately, I didn’t receive all of the books that I ordered. I ordered 8 and was shipped 5. The Amazon website is too difficult for my little mind to navigate and complain. So, here I am, using the wrong avenue to get to the right destination. Maybe.
Rating: 1 / 5
The executives in my company are going through this program. For months I’ve watched them waste – at a minimum, just at my location – $2,000 a week doing the homework, the meetings, the conference calls, the discussions. This is repeated throughout the country at over 3,500 of my company’s sites. And the irony? They continue to micromanage everyone under them, countermand every decision made by an underling, reprimand every initiative made without their input. Now they’re talking about “rolling it out” to all employees at department meetings. Of course, they’re also talking about layoffs. Wonder which will happen first? Wonder which will be the biggest waste?
Rating: 1 / 5
Realistic material. Good examples. I plan to use the information with many of my clients.
Rating: 4 / 5
I guess i can understand the purpose of the material. However, it all seems to be common sense to a recent college grad who had to do any teamwork. I would find books on “treating women equal” just as useful. The concept is outdated, these things are already being taken care of in society.
Rating: 3 / 5
I could not have been more disappointed in a supposedly useful business book. The entire book consisted of assertions on how “accountability” leads to better results, without a single empirical example to support it. Rather, there were plenty of quotes from Jack Welch (he who had 5 good years out of 20 at the top) and anecdotal stories linked to the Wizard of Oz. How dumbed down has business press gotten? What’s next, management according to “Go Dog Go”? It was just bloody awful
Rating: 1 / 5