Management and Myths
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Management and Myths

Challenging business fads, fallacies and fashions

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Management and Myths

Challenging business fads, fallacies and fashions

About this book

This book takes a very critical look at management fads and fashions and shows that many do not stand up to scrutiny. It is believed for example that coaching is successful. What is the evidence for this? Selection procedures at interviews result in the right candidate being selected. Again what is the evidence? The author shows that many fads and fashions in management are short lived and based upon flimsy evidence, yet enjoy a period of support. His book will be an important tool for managers who want to understand the substance and rigour or lack of it associated with modern management ideas and concepts.

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Information

Year
2004
Print ISBN
9781403922045
eBook ISBN
9781403990037
Subtopic
Management

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Accidents at work
  5. Acquiring people skills
  6. Addicted to consultants/consultant dependency
  7. Barnum in business
  8. Behalfers
  9. The bullying boss
  10. Business books and Stalinist Realism
  11. Cash rich, time poor
  12. Conference stress
  13. Continuous assessment
  14. Control freak
  15. Delivering bad news
  16. Development plans
  17. Does coaching work?
  18. Emotional labour
  19. Expectations … and how to manage them
  20. Expensive experts/the consultant, the trainer and the facilitator
  21. Failing in business
  22. Fixers and inventors: semi and real creatives
  23. Fudging the happy sheets
  24. How to choose consultants
  25. Hypocritical management speak
  26. Ice breakers
  27. Integrity
  28. Intrinsic motivation
  29. Judging intelligence
  30. Kickin' arse
  31. Knowledge college management
  32. Larks and owls
  33. Lumpers and splitters; halos and horns
  34. Lying in interviews
  35. Management apologetics
  36. Management literacy
  37. Management tips
  38. Marketing hubris and humility
  39. Money secrecy
  40. The M-word
  41. Nomadic workers
  42. Optimism
  43. Personality testing
  44. Problems of the board
  45. Psychologists in business
  46. Psychology of hoarding
  47. Selection mistakes
  48. Selling cost-saving devices
  49. Sociobiology and inheritance tax
  50. Strategic planning: who needs it?
  51. Support groups for CEOs
  52. Teaching old dogs new tricks
  53. Telling clients what they want to hear
  54. The Icarus syndrome
  55. Typical management style
  56. Unlocking talent
  57. Visitors from headquarters
  58. What makes a good business conference?
  59. Wisdom in business
  60. Work–life balance
  61. Conclusion