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50 Cautionary Tales for Managers
Peter Honey

This book provides management tips on how to be a good manager, providing examples on where different management styles and effective leadership skills are applied and when not to apply them...

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About the Author

Peter Honey - Dr Peter Honey, regarded as one of the world's leading gurus on learning and behaviour and their application to making people more effective in the work place is best known for the Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire that was first published in 1982. Since then, Peter Honey Publications has produced a stream of high quality resources promoting learning for individuals, teams and organisations. Peter also manages to be a prolific author, consultant and speaker.

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50 Cautionary Tales for Managers

Below is the chapter list for "50 Cautionary Tales for Managers". Click any of the chapter headings to read the full text of that chapter online

 
  1. Foreword
  2. A Manager Who Wanted Solutions, Not Problems
  3. A Manager Who Preferred Deference To Consultation
  4. A Manager Who Was Convinced That His Interventions Made A Difference
  5. A Manager Who Enjoyed Victimising Graduates
  6. A Manager Surrounded By Sycophants
  7. A Manager Who Loved To Ask Questions
  8. A Manager Who Liked To Keep Things Simple
  9. A Manager Who Succumbed To A Staff Attitude Survey
  10. A Manager With A Reputation For Being Calm And Unruffled
  11. A Manager Who Showed His Frustration In An Unusual Way
  12. A Manager Who Was Democratic To A Fault
  13. A Manager Who Was Wedded To Short-Termism
  14. A Manager Who Lapsed Into Long Silences
  15. A Manager Who Was Desperate To Keep In Touch
  16. A Manager Who Couldn’t Admit He Was Still Learning
  17. A Manager Who Strove To Give A Student A Really Interesting Week Of Work Experience
  18. A Manager Who Was Hooked On Initiatives
  19. A Head Teacher Who Hardly Ever Put A Foot Wrong
  20. A Manager With Jekyll And Hyde Characteristics
  21. A Manager Who Was A Know-All And Went To Great Lengths To Win Every Argument
  22. A Manager Who Lacked Social Skills
  23. A Manager Who Became The Victim Of Unintended Consequences
  24. A Manager Who Failed To Walk His Talk
  25. A Manager Who Loved To Wander Around
  26. A Manager Who Couldn’t Resist Relying On His Predecessor’s Advice
  27. A Manager Who Insisted Words Could Only Be Used If Precise Definitions Had Been Agreed
  28. A Manager Who Sampled 360 Degree Feedback And Promptly Went Into Denial
  29. A Manager Who Thought Brainstorming Was The Answer To Just About Everything
  30. A Manager Who Couldn’t Resist Tinkering With Written Reports
  31. A Story About Two Managers Vying For Promotion
  32. A Manager Who Found It Convenient To Disappear For Long Periods
  33. A Manager Who Perfected Resistance By Inertia
  34. A Manager Who Was Reluctant To Go Home
  35. An Insecure Manager Clinging On For Survival
  36. A Manager With Unquenchable Enthusiasm
  37. A Manager Who Was Punished For Exposing Dishonesty
  38. A Manager Who Thought He Was Accident Prone
  39. A Manager Who Prided Himself On His Time Management
  40. A Manager Who Liked To Slip Away Unnoticed
  41. A Manager Who Oozed Clichés
  42. A Manager Who Encountered Fierce Resistance
  43. A Manager Who Stuck To His Story
  44. A Manager With A Low Tolerance For Ambiguity
  45. A Manager Who Got Budget Dumping Down To A Fine Art
  46. A Manager Who Recommended Ways To Improve Staff Motivation
  47. A Manager Who Thought He Had Overslept
  48. A Manager Who Was Too Big For His Boots
  49. A Manager Prone To Being Caught Out
  50. A Manager Who Reverted To Type
  51. A Manager Who Was Prone To Tantrums