HAGA'S LAW (Why Nothing Works and No One Can Fix It, and the More We Try, the Worse It Gets)

By William James Haga

Book Overview

This delightful, edifying, eye-opening book shows thay mankind is addicted to organizing and shows why all organzations do the darndest things. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688035426
• ISBN13: 9780688035426
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: William Morrow and Co New York
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

An amazing book taught by an amazing teacher!

My AP American History teacher in Miami took the rest of the time after the AP exam to teach us this book. The analysis by Haga on bureaucracy and the evil of breakloops is great. The humor is worthwhile and i look at the world in a completely different light. This year was this teacher's last teaching year. She is now retired and will no longer take time to teach this amazing book. Another reviewer above has also written about her, she is amazing. From all of your students at Dr. Michael Krop High School in Miami WE LOVE YOU MRS. GIBBS!!!

HAGA'S LAW

I read this book while a graduate student of Dr. James Haga's at Monterey CA in 1979. While tongue-in-cheek, the book is an amazingly accurate analysis of bureaucracy. As a 26 year alumnus of the US Navy and 6 year employee at the Pentagon, I consider myself an expert on bureaucracy, and I have never found a flaw in Dr. Haga's thesis. Jim Haga is a remarkable professor in management. Reading his book is the next best thing to experiencing him in the classroom. You'll love it. And that's just a fact.

THE social life changing book!

My A.P. history teacher in highschool down in Miami took a month off of the curriculim to teach out of this book. It changed my life and how I interact with soical groups and indiviudals. Since I left highschool in 98 I was never able to obtain a copy of this book. Until now. I owe my success at college to this book. IF YOU ARE READING THIS THAN YOU MUST PURCHASE THIS BOOK! DO NOT HESITATE.THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

This is a life changing book.

I was given a galley proof of this work when I left college. I owe much of my success as a product engineer to these principles. It taught me a babancing consideration before I am compulsively driven to offer an operational fix to a minor problem. This ought to be part of any social science curriculum.

Haga's Law should be required reading for all Politicians.

Haga's Law spells out what we have all observed in organizations, especially Government and Political Parties. It explains how and WHY human nature drives ordinary oganizations like the PTA into becoming oppressive thought police agencies. Consider this book essential reading before you are tempted to start an organization you can't kill. You never know when that harmless stamp collecting club you started might grow to the point of lobbying the state government to license and regulate the hobby!