Author: HARVEY, JERRY B.
Title: The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management
Description: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1996.. First edition 150 p.,,diagr. Notes and Selected Reading SOFTCOVER: (Orig. softcover with stiff double wrappers. Pages uncut. One sentence underlined(on Watergate).VERY GOOD) ¶ This work explores how events and decisions within organizations gather momentum once set in motion and often take on lives of their own. It presents stories and events in order to show how organizations continually set themselves up for failure. Explains the Abilene Paradox, a metaphor for how groups often agree to take actions that contradict what the individual members believe is right, in terms of corporate decisions and illogical interactions. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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