The 13 Insanities of Modern Organizations

Some of this book’s readers will (astutely) see some parallels between this book and Thayer’s How Executives Fail. They both identify the kinds of weaknesses in an organization or its managers that will inevitably lead to its demise (or its mediocrity, which amounts to the same thing).

That is inevitable. In his pioneering work of helping CEOs to transform their organizations for high-performance, Dr. Thayer has been developing a successful conceptual framework for understanding organization-making and life-making in general for 60+ years. His mantra for all of those years in his many books, his many consulting assignments here and abroad, and his many, many seminars with CEOs and other top executives, from Australia to Finland, from Greece to China, from Mexico to Canada, and major points in between. Although he started his career as a consultant to the leaders of the Fortune 500, he prefers working with small to medium-sized organizations where, as he says, “it is easier to see the impact being made.” He was more recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who, to add to his many awards over the years of his illustrious career as a consultant, author, and mentor. To date, he has published twenty-six books on his experiences and his research, and he is known worldwide for his perspective on the human condition, both at work and at home.