The Path of Least Resistance
  for Managers:
        Designing Organizations to Succeed

ROBERT FRITZ is the founder of the field of structural consulting. He is a founding partner, along with Peter Senge and Charlie Kiefer, of Innovation Associates. He is also founder of The Fritz Consulting Group, and his clients include many Fortune 500 companies. He is a composer, film director, and author of the bestselling books The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become a Creative Force in Your Own Life and  Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure

"The work of Robert Fritz exhibits the hallmark of real genius: to take the most subtle and complex and make it clear, intuitive, and useful.... Fritz is without doubt one of the most original thinkers today on the creative process in business, the arts, science, and life in general. His work has deeply impacted my life and the lives of many of my colleagues."

-Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline

Science tells us that energy travels where it is easiest to go. Drawing on this concept, Robert Fritz adds a missing piece to management literature-the structural causes of success and failure-and explains how to redesign the organization or team for success. The Path of Least Resistance for Managers teaches readers to take structural laws into account when they restructure their own organizations so the changes they attempt to make do succeed, and they can achieve their highest goals.

 

Fritz examines four crucial elements that contribute to an organization's success:

This revolutionary guide prescribes a direct approach that managers can use immediately to develop the paths of least resistance that will lead to success for their organizations.

·  Based on Robert Fritz' bestselling The Path of Least Resistance and Corporate Tides