Achieving Excellence in Management: Identifying and Learning from Bad Practices - Paperback

by Andrew Kilner (Author)

Most books on management principles focus on particular rules of thumb and best management practices. While the latter approach provides useful guidance and insights, it does not give executives much of an understanding of what bad management can entail and the damage that it can produce. Indeed, good management makes the most sense when it can be directly contrasted with examples of bad management and its implications.

To fill this critical gap, this book adopts a fresh approach, identifying cases of bad management from real-life business situations experienced by the author and contrasting them with good management practice. Inside this long-awaited title, you'll learn the following:

• Management: Avoiding the bad, applying the good-with real life examples
• Contrasting good and bad management in companies & world affairs
• Applying rigorous management techniques to novel situations