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The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management
Jerry B. Harvey
ISBN: 978-0-7879-0277-3
Paperback
160 pages
August 1996
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Table of Contents
 
1. Introduction
2. The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement
3. Organizations as Phrog Farms
4. Management and the Myth of Abraham; or, Go Plant a Cabbage on God's Behalf
5. Captain Asoh and the Concept of Grace
6. Eichmann in the Organization
7. Group Tyranny and the Gunsmoke Phenomenon
8. Encouraging Future Managers to Cheat
 
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