Do you sometimes feel that your office isn't a place of business but a madhouse in disguise? Is risk-taking so discouraged that mediocrity becomes the order of the day? If all this sounds familiar, your company may well be embarked on 'a trip to Abilene.' Now, Jerry Harvey once again rocks the business world. In this new book, he offers a series of insightful and often uproaringly funny 'meditations' on the craziness of everyday organizational life.

Introduction -- The Abilene Paradox : the management of agreement -- Organizations as phrog farms -- Management and the myth of Abraham; or, Go plant a cabbage on God's behalf -- Captain Asoh and the concept of grace -- Eichmann in the organization -- Group tyranny and the Gunsmoke phenomenon -- Encouraging future managers to cheat.