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MANAGEMENT OF THE ABSURD: PARADOXES IN LEADERSHIP CASSETTE: Paradoxes In Leadership By Richard Farson

Facile formulas and quick fixes too often dominate today's management training programs. But human behavior is seldom predictable, and business dilemmas do not easily lend themselves to gimmicks or simplistic answers. In Management of the Absurd, psychologist, educator, and former CEO Richard Farson presents a series of management paradoxes that will challenge conventional wisdom and encourage you to re-examine your assumptions about effective leadership.

Here, at last, is a dramatically new understanding of organizations and human relations. In his explorations of common paradoxical situations, Farson demonstrates the value of a radically different perspective on leadership and offers managers at every level powerful new ways to cope with the many perplexing problems of organizational life. Guided by Management of the Absurd, managers of the 21st century will be able to accept the inherent complexity of management situations and work through these dilemmas, not with manipulative and simplistic techniques, but with understanding, compassion, and effectiveness.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Psychologist, management consultant, former CEO and college dean, and currently head of the International Design Conference in Aspen, Farson has put together a challenging, irritating, galvanizing manual designed to help managers cope with the paradoxes, organizational logjams and interpersonal dynamics of corporate, business and institutional life. In 33 short, conversational chapters, he delivers a series of Zen-like injunctions to jolt readers out of well-worn grooves of thought and action. Some of these prescriptions have a counterintuitive appeal ("Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for." "Once you find a management technique that works, give it up"). Others exude Confucian wisdom ("Every great strength is a great weakness"), and still others sound potentially dangerous if misapplied ("Praising people does not motivate them"). This pithy guide is an armchair workshop in participative management.

Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Today's CEOs have enormous challenges in this rapidly changing, paradoxical world. Author Farson, a psychologist, educator, and former CEO, attempts to help struggling managers reexamine their assumptions about leadership and to better understand and deal with what Farson describes as the absurdities that define modern organizations. While adept at explaining these conflicting situations, Farson narrates in a somnambulant voice that at times sounds as though he is speaking through a flannel blanket, making for a challenging listen. Sample topics include "life is absurd" and "we can never master our relationships." Unfortunately, these paradoxical topics are as difficult to handle as trying to nail jelly to a tree. Farson's advice sits in the shadow of Stephen Covey's Principle-Centered Leadership (S. & S. Audio, 1992). Recommended only for the largest business collections.?Dale Farris, Groves,

Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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