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9780470262009

Games At Work How to Recognize and Reduce Office Politics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470262009

  • ISBN10:

    0470262001

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-04-20
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

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How managers can put the breaks on needless games before they spiral out of controlThis groundbreaking book gives managers the tools to "diagnose" the games that people play in an organizationGotcha, Gossip, Blame, Pecking Orderand shows how to free people's energy for more productive purposes. Using a three-step process entitled ACE (Awakening, Choice, Execution) for reducing games, the authors also include specific examples from global companies that illustrate both the games and how to reduce them and offer a broader organizational perspective.Mauricio Goldstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) is founder of Pulsus Consulting Group, a consulting company focused on organizational transformation. He works with leaders in Fortune 500 companies throughout Latin America, North America, Europe and Africa. Philip Read (Lausanne, Switzerland) has held senior positions in human resources at a number of Fortune 100 companies over 21 years in more than 60 countries. He has won a number of awards for his work including the PricewaterhouseCoopers "Most Innovative HR Department Award."

Author Biography

Mauricio Goldstein is the founder of Pulsus Consulting Group. His passion is to catalyze organizational transformations by creating a deeper connection of people and organizations to their essence. Mauricio has applied his innovative approach to a number of Fortune 500 companies, such as AstraZeneca, Cargill, J&J, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Sodexo, and Schering-Plough, in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Africa.

Philip Read has worked in a number of senior roles in human resources for Fortune 100 companies over the last twenty-two years. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Switzerland, Germany, and Spain. Philip has won a number of awards for his work, including the PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Linkage, Inc. "Most Innovative HR Department" award as part of the leadership team of HR for Dow Chemical.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Let the Games Begin
What Games Are and How They Are Played in Organizations
Playing to Lose
The Negative Impact of Games on Core Business Activities
Fertile Ground
Why Games Are So Pervasive in Modern Corporations
Eyes Wide Shut
Why People Don't Deal with Games at Work
An Eye-Opening Experience
Awakening to Games
Count Me Out
Choosing Not to Play
Game, Interrupted
Executing Your Choice
Interconnections
How Games Are Linked in to an Ecology
The Challenge of Change
Toward a Games-Conscious Model of Transformation
Games at the Top
The Impact of Playing in the Executive Suite
A Sustainable Goal
Transforming Organizations in Small but Significant Ways
Appendix: List of Games
References
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index
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