If you're like most managers today, chances are you're experiencing employee resistance to many of the important changes that your company needs to make. But, says Arthur D. Little consultant Peter Scott-Morgan, if you understood what really drives day-to-day behavior in an organization, you'd then be able to easily break through the barriers and get results. And what Dr. Scott-Morgan has discovered to be the silent engines of employees behavior are not official policies but unwritten rules. [Following are some] examples: Written rule: to become a top manager, get broad experience; Unwritten rule: To get to the top, job hop as fast as possible; Written rule: managers are accountable for their P&amp;Ls; Unwritten rule: protect your turf and watch your quarterlies. In this book you'll learn how to ferret out and decipher all the unwritten rules that are driving day-to-day behavior in your company. You'll learn to pinpoint the specific causes of such organizational negatives as rebellion, gridlock, power plays, conspiracies, paranoia, isolation, lip service, and cynicism. You'll be armed with potent "Rulebusters" that are guaranteed to destroy the power of the most damaging unwritten rules that are insidiously at work in your organization. Plus you'll learn how to internalize the unwritten rules of the game as a core skill; use unwritten rules to decode success as well as failure; manage change when everyone else is suffering from "change fatigue" and "initiative overload"; view your business from the perspective of the individual, because that's the only route to sustainable high performance; learn from real-life case studies - including examples from companies whose initiatives failed; conduct examples from companies optimally selected, cleverly directed interviews that will enable you to start making the connections you need to make between unwritten rules and unintended side effects. Written in 65 mini-chapters, all wryly on target in their analysis of human nature and human foibles, and featuring New Yorker-style cartoons that emphasize major points, this is a book that is at once breezy and brilliant - one likely to become both a best-seller and a classic.

The Unwritten Rules of the Game: Master Them, Shatter Them, and Break Through the Barriers to Organizational Change

Business & Money

Scott-Morgan, Peter

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Discusses how businesses can create an environment of stability while still encouraging growth and innovation by implementing management structures that lessen the impact of change initiatives.

The End of Change: How Your Company Can Sustain Growth and Innovation While Avoiding Change Fatigue

Hoving, Erik

Van Der Slot, Arnoud

Smit, Henk

The incredible and inspiring book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg 'Peter's story is one of the most extraordinary you will ever hear. Remarkable. I urge people to read it' Stephen Fry 'With candour and bravery, Peter tells how he explored new frontiers of science to give himself a chance of survival in a digital afterlife' Daily Mail __________ Peter didn't choose to live forever. He simply chose not to die. Diagnosed with a rare but terminal Motor Neuron Disease, brilliant scientist Peter Scott-Morgan refused to accept that within a few short years he'd be dead. Instead, he embarked on a dangerous journey - to cross the border between mortality and immortality. He would meld his humanity with the latest computer and robotic technology to become Peter 2.0. This is the astonishing story of a man uniquely placed to pursue a new way of life that would not only alter him but perhaps redefine what it means to be human forever. __________ 'A remarkable story . . . you're left desperate to take nothing for granted' Radio Times 'What's striking is Peter's constant optimism, bravery and his ability to find radical answers to problems that have confounded Britain's brightest minds' Daily Telegraph 'Intriguing' The Times 'Fascinating and extremely moving' Sun 'A remarkable account of what it means to be human and what technology can really achieve' Sunday Telegraph

Peter 2.0

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Michael, Joseph

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