Leadership and Organizational Climate

Robert Stringer

1 A guide for motivating people and changing behavior
This book is a must read for managers, leaders, and managers who aspire to be leaders. In a clear and concise manner Stringer walks the reader through the scientific/research base for understanding motivation, provides a framework for building a culture/climate that motivates people, and delivers the practical "how-to" for getting started - complete with case studies, benchmarks and analyses. And while many books provide a way to look at organizational culture, this one actually gives you a means to measure, monitor and improve the specific climate within your company and individual workgroups.

If you are leading change, or simply wish to get the best out of your people, Stringer's book provides the roadmap, progress monitoring, and inspiration.

Once upon a time, when I was training to be a mathematician, a group of
us bright young students taking number theory discovered the names of the
smaller prime numbers.

2: The Odd Prime --
It's the only even prime, therefore is odd. QED.
3: The True Prime --
Lewis Carroll: "If I tell you 3 times, it's true."
31: The Arbitrary Prime --
Determined by unanimous unvote. We needed an arbitrary prime in
case the prof asked for one, and so had an election. 91 received
the most votes (well, it *looks* prime) and 3+4i the next most.
However, 31 was the only candidate to receive none at all.
41: The Female Prime --
The polynomial X**2 - X + 41 is
prime for integer values from 1 to 40.
43: The Male Prime - they form a prime pair.

Since the composite numbers are formed from primes, their qualities
are derived from those primes. So, for instance, the number 6 is "odd
but true", while the powers of 2 are all extremely odd numbers.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of
arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical
world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by
the use of the mathematics of probability.
-- Vannevar Bush