(Hardback)

The authors shed new light on such fads, examining how they develop in other cultures too, and give managers everywhere new ways to react to them, ways to uncover and resist patently nonproductive blandishments.

How to distinguish fads that may have at least some validity from those that don't is a main purpose of the book.

(Hardback)

Details effective management strategies for dealing with power relationships and examines the problems encountered in getting things done in lateral organizations.