RoadMap: How To Understand, Diagnose, and Fix Your Organization

by N. Dean Meyer

People want to do a good job. But much too often, the organizational environment they work in gets in their way. At a minimum, this wastes people's talents and energies, and puts impossible loads on executives. At the worst, it induces people to perform poorly, work at cross purposes, fight with one another, and burn out. Meanwhile, organizations are facing tough challenges from their competition and a volatile, complex business environment. If everyone in an organization isn't doing everything possible to assure its success, the organization is doomed to mediocrity or even failure. This book describes a straightforward approach to building healthy organizations -- ones in which everybody's talents are fully engaged and their independent actions are well orchestrated. It is a handbook for executives who are disappointed with quick fixes, jaded about management fads, and fed up with solving the same problems day after day...for leaders who are tired of fighting alligators and ready to drain the swamp.

138 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 1997

Reviews

[Joseph Francis · Rating 1 out of 5]

Overblown hyperbole, impossible-to-verify factoids, and a plethora of $50 words from an expert snake-oil salesman. Perfect for the clueless executive looking for a quick fix to his/her organization's problems without delving into the TRUE issues.

[Tammy Clark · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read his book and consider organizational tweaks you might make. Don’t invite the wolf into your den or you will eventually regret it. Talks a good game but his overall goal is to convince you that you and your organization suck and he’s the savior that can help you tear it all down and rebuild it. Saying all of this from direct experience with his methods and practices in 2010-12. I found his basic concepts make sense but his direction of putting them into practice reveal a lack of modern industry knowledge or insight. What he did thirty years ago doesn’t work today but you can’t convince him of that!