Incompetence Compensation Competence (eBook)

How Managers Really Tick. Stories

Ralf Lisch (Autor)

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2017 | 1., Originalausgabe
208 Seiten
Solibro Verlag
978-3-96079-044-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The Management Humbug
Authentic stories ironically debunk management myths

Since the broadcast of the British sitcom "The Office" and such counterparts as France's "Le Bureau", Canada's "La Job" or Germany's "Stromberg", even the man in the street suspects that the world of management is not quite as illustrious as it may appear at first glance. While management gurus praise their unerring success strategies, management in real life looks rather different. Where managers refer to reason and rational decision-making citing business economics, the reality of management actually follows the rules of psychology and sociology.
Typically, what managers like to sell as competence is essentially a myth distracting from the driving forces behind management: status, careerism, vanity … you name it. Looking at business from this angle can make management narratives wonderfully entertaining.
In this book, the ex-manager and sociologist Dr. Ralf Lisch has recorded some of the best scenarios. He condenses his comprehensive practical management experience into ten paradigmatic stories from the wondrous world of international management.
The result is an ironic broadside against arrogance and snootiness in management - proving that managers are no different from common folk.
Target group: managers, future managers as well as everybody who wants to better understand how things really are in management.

Autor

Dr. phil. Ralf Lisch (*1951) studied sociology with major focus on organizations and human resources as well as statistics and social research both in Germany and in the USA. After a career in academic and applied research, for the past several decades he has held various leading positions in companies in Germany and abroad and is on intimate terms with the peculiarities of management. Meanwhile, he has made his home in Singapore where he works as a freelance author and consultant. Lisch has published several books and articles about both scientific and popular topics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Klarschiff
• Verlagsort: Münster
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: application • art of management • Assessment Center • authentic • authority • Behavioral Economics • behavioral science • Behaviorism • bosses • Brainstorming • Budgeting • Budgeting Process • Bureaucracy • business • Business administration • business consultancy • Business Development • business economics • Business Processes • Business School • buzzword compliance • buzzword compliant • buzzwords • candidates • Capability • Career • Career Advancement • careerism • career management • Career Planning • career strategy • career tricks • centralization • chairman of the executive board • Change Management • Charisma • chief negotiator • choice of career • claim to power • Coach • Cohesion • Commitment • communications consultant • communications trainer • company car • competence • Competition • Concept • conception of man • consultancy • Consultant • Control • Coordination • Corporate Culture • Corporate Identity • corporate jargon • Creativity • cultural management • Customers • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • cynical • cynicism • decentralization • decision-maker • Decision-Making • decision-making process • Division of labor • dream job • Economics • economy • Effectiveness • Efficiency • episodes • ethics • Excellence • Executive • Executive board • executives • exercise of power • Experience • Experts • Financial market theory • focus • Focusing • Frequent Flyer • Further Education • Game Theory • greediness • Group dynamics • growth • Guru • head office • head quarters • Heuristics • high-flyer • High Potential • Homo economicus • hot tips • Humor • illusionary giant • incompetence • incompetence compensation competence • international business management • International Management • ironic • Irony • junior staff • key qualifications • La Job • Leader • Leadership • Leadership Competence • leadership quality • Le Bureau • literary non-fiction • Logic • Machiavelli • Machiavellism • M&A • Management • management bibliomania • management bibliomaniac • Management Book • management books • Management competence • Management Consultancy • management consultant • management guide • management guru • management gurus • management literature • management meeting • management narrative • Management Process • Management Processes • management reality • Management School • management seminars • management-speak • Management strategies • Management Studies • Management style • Management Systems • management targets • Management Theories • management trainee • Management training • management wisdom • Market • marketing speak • Markets • Master of business administration • Master of Public Administration • Master of Public Management • MBA • Meeting • Merger • Mergers & Acquisitions • meteoric rise • Methodology • Methods • Middle Management • milestones • mockery • Mocking • morale • Morals • Motivation • motivational seminar • Myth • narrative non-fiction • Narratives • negotiator • Networking • Objective • Odo Marquard • organization • organizational analysis • Organizational Behavior • Organizational Development • organizational psychology • Organizational Sociology • Organizational Structure • Organizational Theory • panacea • Patriarch • Performance • Peter principle • Planning • planning certainty • popular non-fiction • Power • practical training • Practice • primus inter pares • proactive • Process Management • Project Management • Project Planning • psychobabble • Psychology • Qualification • quality control • Quality management • Quality management system • rabulistics • Rationality • Reality • reality of management • Real Life • reason • reorganization • Responsibility • Retirement • rhetoric • ridicule • Rise • role play • Rules • Sarcasm • Satire • scandal • secrets of success • section head • self-improvement • self-management • Seminar • seminars • sheep instinct • Short Stories • SIXT • snootiness • Social Psychology • Social Research • Society • Sociology • sociology of management • Sophistry • standard work • Status • Status Quo • status symbols • steering • Strategic Management • Strategy • strategy discussion • Stromberg • Structure • Study • Success • success strategies • success strategy • superior • Supervisory Board • sustainability • symbiosis • synergy • system theories • tactic • target • Taxes • Test • the buero • The Office • theory • Time Management • Top management • Total Quality Management • Trainees • Trainer • Training • vanity
• ISBN-10: 3-96079-044-9 / 3960790449
• ISBN-13: 978-3-96079-044-0 / 9783960790440