The Oz Principle, Roger Connors
The Oz Principle, Roger Connors
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The Oz Principle
Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability

Author: Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman

Narrator: Wayne Shepherd

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Published: 02/04/2011

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

The Oz Principle is the groundbreaking work that demonstrates the vital role of accountability in the achievement of business results and the improvement of both individual and organizational performance. With more than a half million copies sold, The Oz Principle has emerged as one of the most influential and useful business ideas of recent times. The Oz Principle shows how to overcome The Blame Game that is so prevalent in organizations today. By taking the Steps to Accountability® and helping people See It®, Own It®, Solve It®, and Do It®, the authors help people move Above the Line® to take ownership for overcoming obstacles and getting results. The audio book spells out how to capture the power of positive accountability by helping people at every level of the organization ask the question, “What else can I do?” to achieve the result. The Oz Principle changed the fate of hundreds of companies because it works! People want to be accountable. Taking ownership of a business is exciting. So is improved performance. That’s why accountability has become a core management value for thousands of organizations throughout the world.

About The Author

Roger Connors and Tom Smith are cofounders of Partners In Leadership, Inc., the worldwide leader in accountability training, with more than 700 clients in fifty-six countries. They are also authors of How Did That Happen? and their newest release Change The Culture, Change The Game. Craig Hickman is the coauthor of the international bestsellers Creating Excellence and Mind of a Manager, Soul of a Leader, and other business books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Teji on August 06, 2023

This book takes a single point (and a mis-coined one at that): "be accountable--and by accountable we mean be responsible" and beats it to death, resurrects it, and then beats it some more. The authors acknowledge the dictionary definition of accountability and then redefine accountability as "a pers......more

Goodreads review by Dante on June 06, 2009

"Take responsibility for your actions". There, I saved you slogging through that. Well I guess there were some amusing real life anecdotes, but the Wizard of Oz analogy did not work for me at all.......more

Goodreads review by Joe on April 03, 2011

I agree with much of what this book says, but think the presentation was poor. I despise the use of the term, "victim" or "victim mentality". That phrase reeks of early 80-90s Republican mentality. I do believe in personal responsibility and think, especially in work, that one should always ask, "wh......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on June 17, 2007

loved it ... teaches accountibility in the work place and the value of plain ol' getting things done......more

Goodreads review by Kara on May 22, 2018

This is a super long-winded way of saying hold yourself accountable. Seriously, the book boils down to this: (1) work to understand the situation as it truly is, (2) take responsibility for it, (3) ask “what else can I do?”, and (4) execute. The course is better because it provides specific tools to......more

Quotes

“The Oz Principle describes what we’ve all suspected - that it isn’t just America in crisis, but the American character. The good news is that Connors, Smith, and Hickman also describe the ‘yellow brick road’ we must follow to rebuild the dominant qualities to achieve success.”

—Stephen R. Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

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