| You Can't Enlarge the Pie: Six Barriers to Effective Government Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bazerman, Max H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465006329 ISBN-13: 9780465006328 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $21.77 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2002 Annotation: Why do our government leaders continually make decisions and craft policies that everybody knows are foolish? Because they, like the rest of us, remain trapped in foolish and unproductive habits of thinking. "You Can't Enlarge the Pie" analyzes the unspoken assumptions that lead to bad policy, wasted resources, and lost lives, and shows exactly why they're wrong. With fascinating case studies and clear, compelling analysis, it dissects six psychological barriers to ineffective government: 1. Do no harm. 2. Their gain is our loss. 3. Competition is always good. 4. Support our group. 5. Live for the moment. 6. No pain for us, no gain for them. By freeing ourselves from the narrow way we evaluate our government leaders, we can learn to judge their performance more as that of business leaders is judged: by the overall health of their organizations. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - National - Political Science | Commentary & Opinion - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.609 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.08" W x 9.04" (0.93 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Why do our government leaders continually make decisions and craft policies that everybody knows are foolish? Because they, like the rest of us, remain trapped in foolish and unproductive habits of thinking. You Can't Enlarge the Pie analyzes the unspoken assumptions that lead to bad policy, wasted resources, and lost lives, and shows exactly why they're wrong. With fascinating case studies and clear, compelling analysis, it dissects six psychological barriers to ineffective government:1. Do no harm. 2. Their gain is our loss.3. Competition is always good. 4. Support our group. 5. Live for the moment.6. No pain for us, no gain for them. By freeing ourselves from the narrow way we evaluate our government leaders, we can learn to judge their performance more as that of business leaders is judged: by the overall health of their organizations. |