The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability

What rhetorical techniques do the authors use to provide a case for why their methods work to improve organizational culture and efficiency?

The authors’ approach to workplace culture often emphasizes the role of leadership in either creating or solving problems. What is the role of the non-leadership employee in this text?

The authors distinguish between joint accountability and individual accountability. What is the relationship between these two types of accountability and how they contribute to the authors’ approach?

The authors focus a lot on the victim cycle and victim culture. In what ways is their writing a cultural commentary as well as business self-help?

What is the function of the exercises and diagrams in the book that accompany the prose?

How do the authors deploy lists throughout the text?

What is the effect of the authors’ extended metaphor of a “line”?

The authors incorporate a fantasy text, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, into The Oz Principle. How do the genres of business self-help and fantasy interact in this text?