Rating: 
Summary: Clear thinking for an ambiguous world
Review: What I enjoyed most about Robert Fritz's book is his emphasis on looking for patterns and trends present in every business. While during my career as a consultant, I have seen countless examples of "Oscillating" patterns in organizations that I have worked with. I used to write it off to poor performance in either myself as a consultant or my clients. After reading Mr. Fritz's perspective on why organizations oscillate, I understood why smart people do stupid things. Mr Fritz suggests that quite often, the cause is simple; competing goals that rob each other of focus, resources and energy. Mr Fritz's offers insights on how an organization can create real alignment and more importantly, involvement of the entire organization. It works! I've used it and continue to use to this day!This book is a very quick read. It doesn't use the usual format for business oriented books. All effort is brought to bear in helping me, the reader, look at my situation or my client's situation in a different and clearer light. I have read Mr. Fritz' previous books, "Creating", "Corporate Tides", and the original "Path of Least Resistence". The quality of my consulting has vastly improved primarily due to the insights I've gained from Mr. Fritz and his work. Mostly because the book has helped me gain a much clearer perspective of the underlying forces in play in my organization and my client organizations. More importantly the book offers a clear and simple approach to identifying the steps needed for my clients to create the type of lasting results they really want. Isn't that what consulting and high performance leadership all about?
Rating:
Summary: Clear thinking for an ambiguous world
Review: What I enjoyed most about Robert Fritz's book is his emphasis on looking for patterns and trends present in every business. While during my career as a consultant, I have seen countless examples of "Oscillating" patterns in organizations that I have worked with. I used to write it off to poor performance in either myself as a consultant or my clients. After reading Mr. Fritz's perspective on why organizations oscillate, I understood why smart people do stupid things. Mr Fritz suggests that quite often, the cause is simple; competing goals that rob each other of focus, resources and energy. Mr Fritz's offers insights on how an organization can create real alignment and more importantly, involvement of the entire organization. It works! I've used it and continue to use to this day! This book is a very quick read. It doesn't use the usual format for business oriented books. All effort is brought to bear in helping me, the reader, look at my situation or my client's situation in a different and clearer light. I have read Mr. Fritz' previous books, "Creating", "Corporate Tides", and the original "Path of Least Resistence". The quality of my consulting has vastly improved primarily due to the insights I've gained from Mr. Fritz and his work. Mostly because the book has helped me gain a much clearer perspective of the underlying forces in play in my organization and my client organizations. More importantly the book offers a clear and simple approach to identifying the steps needed for my clients to create the type of lasting results they really want. Isn't that what consulting and high performance leadership all about?
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