Book description
Become a better manager by challenging the myths of commonly accepted
management wisdom
A humorous review of current management practice with a very serious
message, The Management Mythbuster makes an entertaining case
for questioning much of the conventional wisdom that pervades the
corporate world today.
Through contrarian and provocative points of view, real world
examples and deep analysis, author and management thought leader David
Axson offers over a dozen short, pithy commentaries on the important
issues in management today:
- Short chapters on popular management practices, theories, tools
and behaviors
- A humorous review of current management practice, with an
underlying serious message
- The fallacies of conventional management wisdom revealed and refuted
- Exposes the fallacies of standard management thinking
If you are brave enough, this concise, easily read book is for you,
returning a sense of common-sense perspective to the practice of
management.
David A. J. Axson, author of Best Practices in
Planning and Performance Management (Wiley), is President of
the Sonax Group, a business advisory firm. He is a former head of
corporate planning at Bank of America and was a cofounder of The
Hackett Group. He is a sought-after speaker and writer on business
strategy and management and is widely regarded as a thought leader in
the industry.
