Further Up the Organization

If you're a manager, read this book. If you're a staff employee, read this book. If you're a bureaucrat, paper-pusher, VP or CEO, run far away from this book, because you're the problem. Amazing that Townsend wrote this book in 1970 and revised it in the early '80s -- and despite the fact that it was......more

Townsend's snarky tone is amusing to read, at times, though not always practical. His notion, for example, that an organization is just going to hire an ad agency and let that agency run whatever they want, no questions asked, no feedback incorporated, etc. That's not going to happen. It worked well......more

I have read up the organization. And this is something like dictionary for the first book. Awesome. A w e s o m e.......more

No BS / candid read on how to move the organizations and be a true leader !!......more

Brilliant book for its time.......more