The Oz Principle
Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
by Roger Connors
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Management, and Leadership.
A decade ago, The Oz Principle took the business world by storm. At its root, the principle works like this: Like Dorothy and the gang in The Wizard of Oz, most businesspeople have the tools to succeed, but when things go wrong they blame circumstance or others instead of looking within for the true cause of unsatisfactory results. Once individuals...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Management, and Leadership.
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Kat Cole
“@atltechblogs learned from the Oz Principle still a favorite book on accountability!”
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“Bill Walsh delivers his philosophy that excellence emerges from meticulous preparation and unyielding standards, not from obsessing over wins. Drawing from his 49ers tenure, the book is part memoir, part leadership sermon. The useful core is its relentless push for personal accountability and daily discipline. But the constant football context can feel exclusionary: if you don't care about specific games or position battles, the anecdotes blur into repetition, and the coaching-heavy lens may frustrate those seeking transferable, non-sports examples.”
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