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Friday, July 25, 2003

Leadership Welcome to the jungle

It's a jungle out there in the workplace.
While bosses preach about teamwork and a supportive culture, their actions promote the opposite by pitting colleagues against each other and encouraging office politics.
The result is a "facade of effectiveness" that prevents workers, and companies, from performing at their best.
They found that nearly nine out of 10 Australian organisations were not performing as well as they could be, because of the culture of blame, indecision and conformity. The research was undertaken by an organisational development company, Human Synergistics, which will release it today to
700 chief executives and human resources officers at a seminar in Sydney.

· 9 out of 10 [SMH]
· Modernization can be irrational and adopted by any type of political system [The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps.]