Management and Myths

Challenging Business Fads, Fallacies and Fashions

Adrian Furnham

Publisher: Palgrave, 2004

ISBN: 1-4039-2204-7

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• Introduction
• Fads in Management
• Fallacies in Management
• Fashions in Management
• Accidents at Work
• Acquiring People Skills
• Addicted to Consultants/Consultant Dependency
• Barnum in Business
• Behalfers
• The Bullying Boss
• Business Books and Stalinist Realism
• Cash Rich, Time Poor
• Conference Stress
• Continuous Assessment
• Control Freak
• Delivering Bad News
• Development Plans
• Does Coaching Work?
• Emotional Labour
• Expectations… and How to Manage Them
• Expensive Experts/the Consultant, the Trainer and the Facilitator
• Failing in Business
• Fixers and Inventors: Semi and Real Creatives
• Fudging the Happy Sheet
• How to Choose Consultants
• Hypocritical Management Speak
• Ice Breakers
• The Lying Game
• Deprivations
• Favourite Compliments
• Sincere One-to-One
• Integrity
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Judging Intelligence
• Kickin' Arse
• Knowledge College Management
• Larks and Owls
• Lumpers and Splitters; Halos and Horns
• Lying in Interviews
• Management Apologetics
• Management Literacy
• Management Tips
• Marketing Hubris and Humility
• Money Secrecy
• The M-word
• Nomadic Workers
• Optimism
• Personality Testing
• Problems of the Board
• Psychologists in Business
• Psychology of Hoarding
• Selection Mistakes
• Selling Cost-Saving Devices
• Sociobiology and Inheritance Tax
• Strategic Planning: Who Needs It?
• Support Groups for CEOs
• Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
• Telling Clients What They Want to Hear
• The Icarus Syndrome
• Typical Management Style
• Unlocking Talent
• Visitors from Headquarters
• What Makes a Good Business Conference?
• Wisdom in Business
• Work-Life Balance
• Conclusion
• Getting It Right
• The Necessary Trio
• Why Is It Not Done
• The Characteristics of Competent Managers