THE WISDOM OF OZ

The hugely popular authors of The Oz Principle take their accountability lessons beyond business to show how anyone can use their system to achieve greater results in life.

Since it was originally published in 1994, The Oz Principle has become the worldwide bible on accountability. The authors’ consulting company, Partners in Leadership, has aided the development of some of the best workplace environments in the world.
Many of their readers yearned for a more user-friendly book that they could share with friends and family outside the business sphere, to help strengthen personal relationships, inspire and motivate their children, increase value on the job, improve health and financial well-being, or implement any other personal goals. THE WISDOM OF OZ is a shorter, simpler, easier-to-read approach to the lessons from The Oz Principle for the general reader.

Readers will find down-to-earth adaptations of the authors’ most popular and effective tools: The Results Pyramid, The Victim Cycle, Above The Line and Below The Line, and the Steps To Accountability. At the core of the authors’ message is the idea that when people take personal ownership of their own goals and accept responsibility for their own performance, they become more invested and work at a higher level to ensure not only their own success, but the success of others.

Readers will take the same journey of self-discovery that enabled The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy and her companions to replace ignorance with knowledge, fear with courage, paralysis with powerfulness, and victimization with accountability. They offer three powerful lessons:
o Don’t play the victim and blame others for your circumstances.
o Stop waiting for others to come to the rescue and solve your problems.
o Never stop asking, “What else can I do?”


Roger Connors and Tom Smith are Co-CEOs/Co-Presidents of Partners in Leadership and three-time New York Times bestselling authors. Together they have developed and authored the most extensive body of knowledge on workplace accountability ever written. Partners In Leadership has thousands of clients and has trained over a million people with an established presence in more than 90 countries. Their books and materials having been translated into numerous languages, they are now supported by a new network of over 1000 facilitators and business representatives worldwide with their exclusive partner, DOOR International.