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Change the Culture, Change the Game
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Change the Culture, Change the Game

The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results

Portfolio, 2011 more...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

In this new, revised version of their 2002 book, Journeys to the Emerald City, management consultants Roger Connors and Tom Smith offer wisdom, anecdotes and facts to help you modify your organizational culture for positive business results. The authors discuss change, culture, and people by providing three-step programs, five-principle approaches, three-level matrices, and a pyramid. The authors employ multiple models because they address elements of the workplace that are as intangible as they are important. As Connors and Smith are fond of saying, “Either you will manage the culture, or it will manage you.” This is proven true even though formulas and jargon occasionally muffle their sound methods and useful message. getAbstract recommends this book to CEOs, executives, human resources professionals, parents and anyone running a team who wants better results.

Take-Aways

  • Culture is easy to ignore and difficult to shape.
  • Failing to shape your culture keeps your team from achieving improved results.
  • When speaking of results, avoid the language of goal setting.

About the Authors

Management consultants Roger Connors and Tom Smith co-wrote Journeys to the Emerald City, The Oz Principle and How Did That Happen?


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