The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-and the Rest of Us-Can Harness the Power of True Partnership - Softcover

Martin, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465044115 ISBN 13: 9780465044115

Publisher: Basic Books, 2008

Synopsis

A Triumph. Few management books have ever brought such psychological insight to the question of why good people often struggle in positions of leadership."-Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point . Are you a heroic leader? Or are you a passive follower? Chances are you act like one or the other, and it's doing serious damage to your company, your customers, and your colleagues. The reason behind your harmful behavior? The fear that you'll be held responsible for any failures -which often makes failure the inevitable outcome. Management guru Roger Martin calls this fear of failure and the behavior it causes "The Responsibility Virus." With lively case studies based on real business practice, he shows how the Virus "infects" corporations and nonprofit organizations large and small. No message could be more urgent in today's business climate.Martin lays out a wholly original way of understanding group dynamics. His impassioned belief in the "power of one" will be required reading for any of us who think about how we function in organizations, from the boardroom to the mail room.

About this title

About the Author

Roger Martin is Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He has published in the Harvard Business Review, Time, and other periodicals and been profiled in periodicals such as the Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, and Fast Company, who named him one of their sixteen "Change Agents" for 2000. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Edition details

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465044115
• ISBN 13: 9780465044115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304