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The Path of Least Resistance for Managers by Robert Fritz
Science tells us that energy travels where it is easiest to go. Drawing on this concept, Robert Fritz adds a missing piece to management literature – the structural cause of success and failure – and explains how to redesign the organization or team for success. The Path of Least Resistance for Managers teaches readers to take structural laws into account when they restructure their own organizations so the changes they attempt to make do succeed, and they can achieve their highest goals.
This revolutionary guide prescribes a direct approach that managers can use immediately to develop the paths of least resistance that will lead to success for their organizations.
Published by Berrett-Koehler
The Path of Least Resistance by Robert FritzIn this classic bestseller, Robert Fritz argues for the power of the individual to choose to become the predominant creative force in his or her life. It is an oasis for anyone tired of the inadequacies of self-help, but who longs to create a life of satisfaction and purpose. Robert Fritz outlines an exciting and different approach to using creativity in everyday life. He shows that creativity is not a special gift given to the very few, but a skill that can be learned in order to change and improve every aspect of life.
Revised/Expanded Edition, Paperback, Published by Fawcett Books
*NEW* The Managerial Moment of Truth
by Bruce Bodaken and Robert Fritz
The Managerial Moment of Truth explains a powerful new concept that can dramatically improve performance and increase productivity, at no cost, in virtually any company or organization. Developed by organizational consultant and bestselling author Robert Fritz and proven in practice by coauthor Bruce Bodaken, the chairman, president, and CEO of Blue Shield of California, the book provides a dynamic technique to help people face up to reality and confront the truth in order to correct mistakes, learn from past performance, and adjust processes to build a more successful organization.
Praise For The Managerial Moment of Truth
“Bold, important, groundbreaking. This is the most important book you’ll read as a business manager and coach. You’ll learn a powerful and simple four-step method to shift your organizational culture to one of truth telling and empowerment. Your employees will thank you and your customers will thank them.”
– Patricia Seybold, author of Customers.com and The Customer Revolution
“A valuable addition to our understanding of the power of conversation to transform ourselves and the workplaces we inhabit. It offers a precise framework and dialogue for creating authentic relationships in difficult moments. It delivers the means to replace blame and rationalization with learning and action. No small accomplishment.”
– Peter Block, author of Stewardship
“This book will genuinely revolutionize the way you relate to your boss, your peers, and your employees. It can remove the greatest stress we all experience in organizations by allowing you to relate freshly and directly to what is really going on, which is to say, facing reality. Best of all, the result will be exceptional performance and productivity.”
– Candice Carpenter, author of Chapters and co-founder of iVillage
“Bodaken and Fritz offer a simple but powerfully effective method to enhance organizational learning. MMOT conversations are the best investments you and your team can make: their payback lasts for years.”
– C. Sherry Immediato, President and Managing Director, SOL, the Society for Organizational Learning
“This book is for anyone who manages. The authors provide a simple and elegant model for truth telling that will, if practiced and followed, improve the performance of your team. Yet this is not just a technique for performance improvement. It has everything to do with how to develop, engage, and retain the talent on your team.”
– Beverly Kaye, Founder/CEO: Career Systems International
“The Managerial Moment of Truth is very simply about how managers must have the discipline to tell the truth and help their employees to confront reality. At a time when people have lost trust in many of the basic institutions of our society, this book will benefit managers and employees alike and support integrity within the organization.”
– Hon. Leon E. Panetta, Director, Panetta Institute for Public Policy, former Chief of Staff to President Clinton
