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The High Functioning Addict: How our most successful organisations destroy themselves

The High Functioning Addict: How our most successful organisations destroy themselves

Ling, Darran

Paperback

Business GeneralManagement

ISBN10: 1066795401
ISBN13: 9781066795406
Publisher: Lodgestone Press
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The most dangerous organisation is the one that looks unstoppable.

A healthy organisation and an addicted one look identical from the outside. Both grow. Both hit their metrics. Both stand and applaud themselves at the town hall.

The difference never shows up in financials, because the numbers are the last thing to fall.

This is a diagnosis, not another book about culture.

Organisational Addiction begins the day chasing the reward replaces doing good work. The measure becomes the mission. The behaviours that built the success are replaced with behaviours that protect reward, long after the reward has gone.

Darran Ling spent twenty years inside the FTSE 100 and the Fortune 500, in operations and transformation roles where the damage shows up first. This book names what he saw, and gives you a way to test for it.

The Organisational Addiction test is a synthesis of nine behavioural markers, each one grounded in established research. Together they give a tangible way to assess organisational performance beyond the headline financials.

What is inside

- Nine markers that expose the addiction while the results still look excellent.

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