The Wrong Manager

Management mistakes and how to avoid them

Marce Fernández

• Publisher: LID Publishing
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781911687375
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

As a manager or executive, you don't want to make mistakes. You want to make the right decisions that will help your career and business progress. However, no one is free from making mistakes, especially as the world and business becomes ever more complex. In fact, most managers and executives make their decisions without being aware of the clues that separate the right decisions from the wrong ones. This book unravels the mystery that lies between success and failure, focusing on management mistakes. It uncovers the reasons behind most decision errors and shows how to deal with them successfully. It proposes a better approach to goal setting, risk assessment, context analysis, information processing, number crunching and personnel management. It also gives the keys to overcoming the long list of cognitive biases that managers suffer from (whether they know it or not). The book is written from the diverse and rich experience of the author and is based on the examples of dozens of real business mistakes.

Table of contents

• COVER
• BACKCOVER
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• TITLE
• CONTENTS
• 1. INTRODUCTION
• 2. HOW TO APPLY DECISION THEORIES TO MANAGEMENT
• 3. MANAGERS MAKE MISTAKES ALL THE TIME
• 4. THE REASONS MANAGERS ARE SO OFTEN WRONG
• 5. TEAM DECISION-MAKING
• 6. BUSINESS SCHOOLS BEFORE DECISION-MAKING
• 7. HOW MANAGERS CAN AVOID MISTAKES
• 8. DECISION-ORIENTED ORGANIZATIONS
• APPENDIX 1: THE SURVEY
• APPENDIX 2: LIST OF MANAGEMENT ERRORS COLLECTED IN THE SURVEY
• REFERENCES
• COPYRIGHT