Who Really Matters
The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege and Success
Advanced Praise for Who Really Matters...
"Art Kleiner's
'blinding flash of the obvious' just might become a classic."
-- Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline
"Seminal idea, brilliantly presented and wonderfully useful."
-- Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
at USC and author of GEEKS AND GEEZERS: How Era, Values and Defining
Moments Shape Leaders.
"Like any
deep insight, it makes explicable what had previously been mysterious."
--Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and co-author
of Built to Last
"This book
is an invitation to meet your own organisation, whether you are in business,
government, trade unions or a NGO."
-- Arie de Geus, author of The Living Company,
former Coordinator
of Royal Dutch/Shell Group Planning
"I see
this as a critical way of understanding success and failure."
--Professor Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Harvard Business School emeritus.
"Art Kleiner
has written a book that can bring about a sea change in how we understand
and relate to organizations."
-- James Flaherty, founder of New Ventures West and
author of Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others
"A must for
any individual working in an organization.… analogous to giving a
life raft to someone who has been treading water for a long time."
-- Ruby Payne, author of the education bestseller, A Framework
for Understanding Poverty
"This addition
to the conventional wisdom should be part of everyone's library."
-- Robert A.G. Monks, shareholder activist
and author of Corporate
Governance and The New Global Investors
"This book
provides a much needed _new_ perspective on leadership, power and authority."
-- Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus,
MIT Sloan School of Management.
"I know that
I will be making good use of these ideas -- consciously and otherwise
-- in the months and years to come."
-- Chris Ertel,
Global Business Network
"Art has the
ability to put into words both the subtle and not so subtle things that
we need to be watching for if we are going to be managing our careers
effectively."
-- Jayne Hill, Executive Branch Manager and Managing Director,
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, New Haven, CT