The Path of Least Resistance for Managers: Designing Organizations to Succeed
Author: Robert Fritz, Peter M. Senge
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ISBN: 1576750655
Publisher: Publishers' Group West (April, 1999)
Sales Rank: 53,300
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Clear thinking for an ambiguous world
What I enjoyed most about Robert Fritz's book is his emphasis on looking for patterns and trends present in every business. While during my career as a consultant, I have seen countless examples of "Oscillating" patterns in organizations that I have worked with. I used to write it off to poor performance in either myself as a consultant or my clients. After reading Mr. Fritz's perspective on why organizations oscillate, I understood why smart people do stupid things. Mr Fritz suggests that quite often, the cause is simple; competing goals that rob each other of focus, resources and energy. Mr Fritz's offers insights on how an organization can create real alignment and more importantly, involvement of the entire organization. It works! I've used it and continue to use to this day!This book is a very quick read. It doesn't use the usual format for business oriented books. All effort is brought to bear in helping me, the reader, look at my situation or my client's situation in a different and clearer light.
I have read Mr. Fritz' previous books, "Creating", "Corporate Tides", and the original "Path of Least Resistence". The quality of my consulting has vastly improved primarily due to the insights I've gained from Mr. Fritz and his work. Mostly because the book has helped me gain a much clearer perspective of the underlying forces in play in my organization and my client organizations. More importantly the book offers a clear and simple approach to identifying the steps needed for my clients to create the type of lasting results they really want.
Isn't that what consulting and high performance leadership all about?
Rating: 5 out of 5
This book will make a major impact in your organization.
I have spent 25 years growing a family business, read many volumes on leadership and management, completed an Executive MBA, and taken post masters work in leadership and organization development. This book provided me deep insight that I had not found in any of my studies. The understanding of structure I found in the Path for Managers gave me a new clarity of what it takes to design an organization to accomplish its most important goals. The insights are very practical in their application. I have begun to apply these principles, and the results have been profound. Organizations with structural conflict will never achieve the intended results, and when structural tension is created, the results build upon themselves. I give this book my highest recommendation. It will give you tools to align your organization with a vision, and to insure that the vision becomes a reality.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Brilliant Simplicity
Being simple and being simplistic are often not the same. It is shocking that humans condescend to complexity when "simple brilliance" will do. I believe Robert Fritz has done for business what Einstein did for physics. Some reviewers want more theories and more data, when a genuine and workable insight could change everything for their organizations or their lives. E=mc2 is simple, but it is by no means simplistic. For the manager or leader who wants to make sense of his or her organization's struggles, The Path of Least Resistance for Managers is just the ticket. Our own company, TrimTab Solutions specializes in bringing clarity and focus to organizations in transition or crisis. The insights of Robert Fritz are the cornerstone for what we have found to be the most profound and insightful approach to organizational transformation and sanity; it is simple, but not simplistic. The insights in this book, if applied, are destined to influence your organization because they follow the basics of a structure's influence on behavior. Change the structure and the organization will change...Change it intelligently and the organization will advance. Buy the book and step to the forefront of organizational leadership...but be forewarned: Bring a teachable spirit. Be willing to unlearn a few assumptions to make room for Fritz's simple and strategic insights. I wouldn't begin to think about change in an organization without answering the 11 Questions first (they're in the book). Finally, and for Pete's Sake, Peter Senge wrote the forward for his "friend and mentor" Robert Fritz. What further reason do you need? Similar Products
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