Book description
"A terrific read not only for senior leaders and executives but
also for employees seeking growth in complex organizations. Goldstein
and Read dissect the interpersonal dynamics that affect a company's
performance, provide a framework to understand the games that are
commonly played in businesses around the world, and offer practical
tools to correct these behaviors and improve the organization's effectiveness."
-Jacopo Bracco
, executive vice president, DIRECTV Latin America
"Whether you
are an employee, manager, or CEO, this book will help you uncover the
games that are going on around you and in your organization and will
arm you with strategies to combat the negative effects of these
games."
-Corey J. Seitz, vice president, global
talent management, Johnson & Johnson
"This book is a good warning sign for organizational life. A
road map of potholes and wrong turns. Written in a clear and
down-to-earth way, its strength is its
concreteness."
-Peter Block, author, Community:
The Structure of Belonging
"Play or don't play, your choice. But if you need to manage and
aspire to lead, you must read Goldstein and Read's helpful treatment
of the games going on all around you all the time. Prepare to be
entertained and disconcerted in equal measure."
-Seán
Meehan, Martin Hilti Professor of Marketing and Change Management, IMD
"Goldstein and Read provide an accessible and penetrating
discussion of the twenty-two most common games at work and their
individual and organizational causes, business costs, and remedies.
Every working person who has ever been a victim or perpetrator of
political games will profit from reading Games at
Work."
-Harvey A. Hornstein, emeritus professor of
psychology; former director of Columbia University Organizational
Development Programs; and organizational consultant
Mauricio Goldstein is the founder of Pulsus
Consulting Group. His passion is to catalyze organizational
transformations by creating a deeper connection of people and
organizations to their essence. Mauricio has applied his innovative
approach to a number of Fortune 500 companies, such as AstraZeneca,
Cargill, J&J, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Sodexo, and Schering-Plough, in
Latin America, North America, Europe, and Africa.
Philip Read has worked in a number of senior roles in human
resources for Fortune 100 companies over the last twenty-two years. He
has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, the United States, China,
Switzerland, Germany, and Spain. Philip has won a number of awards for
his work, including the PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Linkage, Inc.
"Most Innovative HR Department" award as part of the
leadership team of HR for Dow Chemical.
