How come every time I get stabbed in the back, my fingerprints are on the knife? and other meditations on management / Jerry B. Harvey.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260).

Some thoughts about organizational backstabbing or how come every time I get stabbed in the back my fingerprints are on the knife? -- The spin doctors : an invitation to meditate on the organizational dynamics of the Last Supper and why Judas was not the traitor -- On the ethics of standing for something or sitting on our duffs -- Learning to not* teach -- Prayers of communication and organizational learning -- This is a football : leadership and the anaclitic depression blues -- What if I really believe this stuff? -- Musings about the elephant in the parlor or "who the hell is Elliot Jaques?" -- On tooting your own horn or social intervention as the process of releasing flatus in the confines of religious institutions -- Ode to Waco : when bizarre organizational behavior is concerned, God works in strange and mysterious ways -- When we buy a pig : the tragedy of the no-nonsense manager.