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9781881052265

Escape from Management Hell Twelve Tales of Horror, Humor, and Heroism

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    9781881052265

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-05-01
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Summary

Management Hell looks a lot like the organisations that people work in today. It's a place of rapidly increasing demands on productivity, fewer resources, and greater ethical dilemmas than ever before. These twelve tales of horror, humour and heroism help us make sense of the madness of modern management and find our way out of age-old managerial dilemmas.

Author Biography

An internationally known expert on change management, Robert D. Gilbreath founded the worldwide Organizational Change Practice of Anderson Consulting and is now president of Change Management Associates. He is the author of Save Yourself: Six Pathways to Achievement in the Age of Change,and Escape from Management Hell.

Table of Contents

Prologue
1. The Bones of Hammurabi (Meet the original control freak)
2. Those Amazing Digit-Heads (A brief history of decision-making)
3. The Golden Egg Café (How compromise chokes innovation)
4. Caligula's Chariot Race (Quality challenges a cheat)
5. The Lost Cult of Consensus (The only thing everyone can agree on)
6. The Labyrinth of Bull (Where bureaucracy is king)
7. The Tell-Tale Telex (Shame is a management skill)
8. Cataract Woman (Why we need "the vision thing")
9. Constantine's Culture Change (The change master from hell)
10. The Hungry Thoughts of Slaves (Who will lead us?)
11. Killer Bees (How consulting got started)
12. Augustine's Confession (Finding the limits of management)

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