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How come every time I get stabbed in the back, my fingerprints are on the knife? and other meditations on management
Title:
How come every time I get stabbed in the back, my fingerprints are on the knife? and other meditations on management
Author:
Harvey, Jerry B.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
xx, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Some thoughts about organizational backstabbing or How come every time I get stabbed in the back my fingerprints are on the knife? -- The spin doctors : an invitation to meditate on the organizational dynamics of the Last Supper and why Judas was not the traitor -- On the ethics of standing for something or sitting on our duffs -- Learning to not*teach -- Prayers of communication and organizational learning -- This is a football : leadership and the anaclitic depression blues -- What if I really believe this stuff? -- Musings about the elephant in the parlor or "Who the hell is Elliot Jaques?" -- On tooting your own horn or Social intervention as the process of releasing flatus in the confines of religious institutions -- Ode to Waco : when bizarre organizational behavior is concerned, God works in strange and mysterious ways -- When we buy a pig : the tragedy of the no-nonsense manager.
ISBN:
9780787947873
Format :
Book