About this title: The Oz Principle explores how people in business suffer from the same feelings of anxiety and helplessness that beset the characters in The Wizard of Oz. It shows how to break through above the line with an attitude of accountability that empowers employees to overcome problems, excuses, and biases, to achieve enviable results.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Pr
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780735200432ISBN:0735200432
Description: Near-Fine. 8vo. {011208} The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability by Roger Connors and Craig R. Hickman and Tom Smith. ISBN 0735200432. Published by Prentice Hall Pr in 1998. TRADE PAPERBACK 8vo Management 191pp. {Book Condition} NEAR-FINE {Book Condition Details} Cover: minor edge wear, minor creasing on Spine, minor rubbing. read more
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Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Date Published: 1998-10-15
ISBN-13:9780735200432ISBN:0735200432
Description: Good. Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket not necessarily included minimal wear to binding, majority of pages undamaged, minimal to no highlighting/underlining of text, no missing p. read more
"As an avid reader of business, leadership and management books, I can say one thing is certain: trends and fads come and go. (Anyone else remember "quality circles"?)
For good or ill, my company has decided to adopt "The Oz Principle" as its management methodology. The roll-out has been excruciatingly slow, so I opted to read this book for the "Readers are Leaders" book club and discuss it with the members.
The authors put out a different concept of accountability than that to which we have all been exposed. For most of us, accountability means "whose fault is this" -- that's the model that a good many companies use. The authors maintain that accountability means asking yourself "What can I do to make this better" and provide some concrete examples of how their concepts work. They use the characters from L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz" to illustrate their four "Steps to Accountability," which is a different approach from similar management ideologies.
Overall, there is much to like about these concepts --assuming that *everyone* in the team is on board with modeling the behaviors."
"I'm not usually big on business books. I often find that they try to push their "bigger-better idea" over common sense. This book, The Oz Principle, seems to push common sense over the bigger-better deal. It realizes that by depending on someone else's methodology to get results, one basically enables a new scapegoat when it fails. Instead, this book says to throw out the scapegoat, stop whining and realize personal accountability AND potential - and that combination is important. This is one of the few business books that I haven't rolled my eyes at, and I am willing to give these ideas a try."
"I have been assigned to read this for a book club at work, in case you were wondering why I am reading this book along with all the other, more fun books...ha."
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