Games At Work: How to Recognize and Reduce Office PoliticsISBN: 978-0-470-26200-9
Hardcover
256 pages
April 2009, Jossey-Bass
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Foreword ix
Kevin Cashman
Introduction 1
1 LET THE GAMES BEGIN
What Games Are and How They Are Played in Organizations 11
2 PLAYING TO LOSE
The Negative Impact of Games on Core Business Activities 46
3 FERTILE GROUND
Why Games Are So Pervasive in Modern Corporations 65
4 EYES WIDE SHUT
Why People Don’t Deal with Games at Work 83
5 AN EYE-OPENING EXPERIENCE
Awakening to Games 95
6 COUNT ME OUT
Choosing Not to Play 108
7 GAME, INTERRUPTED
Executing Your Choice 125
8 INTERCONNECTIONS
How Games Are Linked In to an Ecology 147
9 THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE
Toward a Games-Conscious Model of Transformation 164
10 GAMES AT THE TOP
The Impact of Playing in the Executive Suite 179
11 A SUSTAINABLE GOAL
Transforming Organizations in Small but Significant Ways 198
Appendix: List of Games 206
References 224
Acknowledgments 226
About the Authors 228
Index 230
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