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The Unavoidable Hierarchy provides an analysis of why, in virtually every organization, members advance or decline in standing for reasons that have little or nothing to do with their merit. Michael Hatfield explains how this dynamic can be observed and analyzed, and insights gleaned from the analysis. With organizations struggling to m
List of contents
Introduction Chapter 1: Everybody Wants to Rule the World Chapter 2: Where We¿EUR¿re Coming From Chapter 3: Where We¿EUR¿ve Been Chapter 4: Why We¿EUR¿re Headed There: It¿EUR¿s All In The Game Chapter 5: Instructional Voyeurism Chapter 6: The Unavoidable Hierarchy Chapter 7: On Organizational Narratives ¿EUR" the Stories We Know, the Secrets We Keep Chapter 8: Preparing to Play the Ranking Game Chapter 9: Playing the Ranking Game Chapter 10: Tearing Down the Organization Chapter 11: Preventing the Group¿EUR¿s Destruction Chapter 12: The Stories of Our Lives Chapter 13: The Stories of Others¿EUR¿ Lives Chapter 14: Implications for Management and Leadership Conclusion Appendix A: List of Hierarchical Strategies Addressed in the Book
About the author
Michael Hatfield, PMP, CCC, EVM, is probably best known as the author of the long running column in
PMNetwork magazine, Variance Threshold. Besides
PMNetwork, his work has appeared in the
Project Management Journal,
Cost Engineering,
Gantthead,
People on Projects,
The Measurable News, and even in the
Nuclear Weapons Journal. He is the author of
Things Your PMO Is Doing Wrong (PMI Publishing, 2008) and
Game Theory in Management (2012). He has worked as an entry-level technician for the Air Force Weapons Laboratory's Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) test sites, as the director of a National Laboratory's Project Management Office overseeing a budget of $1.3 Billion (USD), and many very interesting jobs in-between.
Summary
The Unavoidable Hierarchy provides an analysis of why, in virtually every organization, members advance or decline in standing for reasons that have little or nothing to do with their merit. Michael Hatfield explains how this dynamic can be observed and analyzed, and insights gleaned from the analysis. With organizations struggling to m
