Journey to the Emerald City: Achieve A Competitive Edge by Creating A Culture of Accountability
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Taking inspiration from The Wizard of Oz, international management consultants Roger Connors and Tom Smith have adapted the underlying framework of one of the world's most famous morality plays to propose a better way of doing business. In their first book, The Oz Principle, they described the potential benefits of a related structure of corporate unification and discussed its long-range ramifications for organizational improvement. In their new effort, Journey to the Emerald City: Achieve a Competitive Edge by Creating a Culture of Accountability, they articulate a step-by-step plan for accelerating its development. The obstacle-strewn path negotiated by the story's legendary characters helped create an "understanding of what was needed in order to achieve the goals of each person on the team," write Connors and Smith. "Yet, the journey not only led to personal insight about what needed to change, but also a collective insight about how the team needed to think and act as a whole in order to get where they were going." Accordingly, the authors present a Yellow Brick Road-map here for altering behavioral patterns of employees and managers to get them working together more effectively to achieve superior results. --Howard Rothman
Book Description
A concise model for creating and sustaining a culture of accountability at all levels of the organization.
In Journey to the Emerald City, Connors and Smith build on the tremendous success of The Oz Principle, Roger Connors and Tom Smith now show companies how they can change their corporate culture to create the " culture of accountability" which has proven to be the linchpin of a successful organization , in which every worker is a leader and everyone is empowered.
The Emerald City is the ultimate organizational destination, a place where people focus on what they can do, not on what they can't, and where they look for solutions rather than offering excuses. Connors and Smith take readers step by step on the journey through the critical cultural levers of management alignment, ownership, feedback, joint accountability and coaching. They also examine how to stay "above the line" to nurture the new climate and reinforce positive change. No organization can get to the Emerald City overnight, but they can hasten the trip with the tools and techniques presented in this book.
Journey to the Emerald City: Achieve A Competitive Edge by Creating A Culture of Accountability
Journey to the Emerald City: Achieve A Competitive Edge by Creating A Culture of Accountability,Roger Connors,Tom Smith,Prentice Hall Press,0735200521,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Corporate Culture,Corporations,Entrepreneurship,Management,Management - General,Organizational Behavior,Structural Adjustment,Success in business,Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior,Management & management techniques,Ownership & organization of enterprises,Business
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