The Hopeless, Hapless and Helpless Manager by Adrian Furnham

The Hopeless, Hapless and Helpless Manager by Adrian Furnham

This book is about the dark side of management. It is about incompetence rather than competence. It is about under-educated, misinformed, pusillanimous, egocentric and fundamentally deluded human beings who end up as managers causing misery and poverty to millions. Adrian Furnham is not afraid to take a critical look at management hype and consultant flim-flam. In the first section - Millennium Management Myopia - over fifty topics are arranged in dictionary order in bite-sized essays. Crisp, funny and challenging, they are constructive as well as critical. The second part of this book contains adaptations, by Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly of the Royal Marines, of actual military appraisal forms (from military jargon to management-speak). The final section provides a dozen self-scoring quizzes.

ADRIAN FURNHAM is a psychology professor at University College London in the United Kingdom. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, has won numerous prizes, and was named the world's most productive psychologist from 1980 to 1989. He is the author of more than 600 journal papers and 42 publications, including a number of well-received management books. He consults for a variety of organizations, including the UK government, British Airways, HBOS, SAP, and a number of global firms. He contributes to the Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times on a regular basis and is a regular on BBC radio and television.

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ISBN 13	9781861561619
ISBN 10	186156161X
Title	The Hopeless, Hapless and Helpless Manager
Author	Adrian Furnham
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year published	2000-04-01
Number of pages	248
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