{"product_id":"how-come-every-time-i-get-stabbed-in-the-back-my-f-fingerprints-are-on-the-knife-9780787947873","title":"How Come Every Time I Get Stabbed in the Back My","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume incorporates a series of meditations illustrating different aspects of organizational behaviour. It provides an insight for the reader who seeks a moral perspective on corporate life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jerry Harvey has the uncanny ability of observing the ordinary yetseeing the extraordinary. His insights are both provocative anduseful, no common combination. Reading this book, you will learn tosee the world through another lens.\" (W. Warner Burke)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Here are real organizational worlds both terrifying and hilarious,where people say and do things that they don't do anywhere else,and feel things that they don't feel anywhere else, and fortunatelyJerry Harvey is there, too, to record it, reflect on it, and helpus learn from it. Bless him!\" (Peter Vaill, professor and holder ofthe Distinguished Chair in Management Education, University of St.Thomas, Minnesota)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A decade ago, Jerry Harvey's Abilene Paradox indelibly entered thelexicon as a metaphor for unproductive group behavior. Now, he'sidentified an equally damaging-and paradoxical-pattern ofindividual self-destruction. And, once again, he offers the sameinvaluable prescription: Tell the truth to everyone?especiallyyourself. Ah, if only this time we will listen.\" (James O'Toole,author, Leadership A to Z)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Author.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: It's Not My Dog.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Some Thoughts About Organizational Back Stabbing or How Come EveryTime I Get Stabbed in the Back My Fingerprints are on theKnife?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Spin Doctors: An Invitation to Meditate on the OrganizationalDynamics of the Last Supper and Why Judas was not theTraitor.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On the Ethics of Standing for Something or Sitting on OurDuffs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Learning to Not*Teach.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Prayers of Communication and Organizational Learning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This Is a Football: Leadership and the Anaclitic DepressionBlues.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What If I Really Believe This Stuff?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Musing About the Elephant in the Parlor or \"Who the Hell Is ElliotJaques?\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On Tooting Your Own Horn or Social Intervention as the Process ofReleasing Flatus in the Confines of Religious Institutions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ode to Waco: When Bizarre Organizational Behavior Is Concerned, GodWorks in Strange and Mysterious Ways.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When We Buy a Pig: The Tragedy of the No-Nonsesne Manager.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Afterword: In Memory of Suzanne.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e References.","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405033939287,"sku":"9780787947873","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780787947873.jpg?v=1730488444","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-come-every-time-i-get-stabbed-in-the-back-my-f-fingerprints-are-on-the-knife-9780787947873","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}