- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco (10 Dec 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0062548743
- ISBN-13: 978-0062548740
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 877,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Well written and sure to be controversial. Highly recommended for all management collections." -- "Library Journal""A paradigm buster...as key to human wellness as Einstein's theory of relativity has been to modern physics." -- Phil Lane Jr., coordinator, Four Worlds Development Project"Business spends millions of dollars each year trying to figure out how to streamline the corporate structure and make it more productive. A more effective strategy, however, may cost...the price of a new book titled "The Addictive Organization." -- Dick Youngblood, "Star Tribune, " Minneapolis
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This book shows how managers, workers and organization members exhibit symptoms of addiction - denying and avoiding problems, assuming that there is no other way of behaving, manipulating events to maintain the status quo. They examine how organizations can become centres of denial, confusion, overwork, covering up and picking up the pieces to please the boss.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It was refreshing to see an author who is willing to view organisations from a perspective of whether or not their culture would represent healthy living or not. The verdict is 'no'. Wilson Schaef and Fassel, by presenting organisational culture and inflluence as pervasive and abberent makes us rethink their place in our human psyche and society. A refreshing view, even if a rather disturbing conclusion. A good book to let go our inertia.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book seems promising in the beggining but its analysis of the problems in the workplace seem shallow. I find it hard to accept that relating management problems within troubled organizations to that of an alcoholic envinronment is interesting but I feel it does not resolve the problems. It also seems to me that the authors do not offer concrete solutions and do not seem to be quite sure of exactly what they are proposing.
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
But don't expect the Company to Like it!
13 Jun 2000
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In many years in the Corporate life, I wanted the Company to understand that a lot of the problems management was having were caused by...surprise!...management.
This book is excellent in explaining to those of us who hate the insanity of corporate life what is happening and why, and possible remedies.
If you are working, or are listening to a friend or loved one complain over and over about office politics and craziness of different bosses, this book is a great read.
Even the authors, however, will tell you not to expect the Company to listen. They might nod and buy the book, pass them around HR and so on, but in essence, most mid- to large-sized corporations are so big that their dysfunctional behavior cannot be taken apart without the whole thing unfolding. (Or at least, that's what they believe, and so the urge to hold on).
The CEO of a dysfunctional company won't appreciate the insight that each company is as healthy or as ill as their top leader - the further away she/he gets from the goings on, the less s/he may be aware of this, and the less willing to hear this.
My advise is to read the book but expect no "cures". Reading this book helped my sanity (I took early retirement). Anyone suffering inside a corporation can start questioning, seriously, if they want to stay in this dysfunctional "family" (there may not be much of a choise)and if they can get out, start planning. Even if retirement or leaving is years away, planning helps. Get a life outside the Company. Also read "Crazy Bosses" and other books by Anne Wilson Schaef.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding insights and many missing links
21 July 2001
Format:Paperback
The key insight I had when I read this book is that the behavior of organizations when they become "addictive" follows very predictable patterns. There is nothing unique about them. But to a society that is full of "addicts" who create addictive organizations, the principles revealed in this book will stir reactions and opposition. The book is almost too honest, and there lies its power. The book has many new insights and connections and is a lot of fun to read. I found myself chuckling often.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
So what do you call normal?
27 Jan 1999
Format:Paperback
It was refreshing to see an author who is willing to view organisations from a perspective of whether or not their culture would represent healthy living or not. The verdict is 'no'. Wilson Schaef and Fassel, by presenting organisational culture and inflluence as pervasive and abberent makes us rethink their place in our human psyche and society. A refreshing view, even if a rather disturbing conclusion. A good book to let go our inertia.
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