You have the power to break the anxiety cycle in your workplace.
You've tried organizational planning ... hired the best people you can find ... instituted one training initiative after another. But despite your best intentions, productivity is down, and so is morale. Management consultant Jeffrey A. Miller says your company's real problem may be one you've never considered: excessive systemic anxiety. It's a highly contagious condition that can be devastating to your company ... perhaps even deadly.
But there is good news. It takes only one person to break the cycle of excessive anxiety and turn a troubled organization completely around.
In this important new book, you'll discover how to:
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Identify the symptoms of anxiety, uncover its hidden costs and take advantage of practical, proven solutions for rising above it.
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Make a principle-based decision, called an I-position, rather than one driven by anxiety. Counteract the natural phenomenon of Wangling, in which any relationship between two people seeks to stabilize itself by drawing in a third person or element.
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Identify and correct overfunctioning and underfunctioning behaviors in your employees and yourself.
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Stay calm, clear and collected in the face of systemic anxiety, thus sparking a widespread positive change in your company.
This book's message is both fascinating and inspiring. As Miller himself concludes: "Turning around an anxious organization isn't easy. But it is simple. An individual who shows courage in the face of his or her own anxiety can transform a herd of stampeding wildebeests into a sane, smart and effective organization."
Primitive Guys, Inc.
Why all organizations are anxious
This Is Your Brain on Stress How anxiety leads to doing dumb things
You Are Not a Wildebeest The herd instinct and it's discontents
Three's Company The triangle as the basic unit of organisational politics
I'm Okay; You're Dysfunctional The one-up one-down cha cha
Nothing Personal Blame, cutoff, and open warfare
Getting a Grip How to stay calm, clear, and collected in a crazy system
The Power of One How to change the system from within
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