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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Despite good intentions, poor management has become the everyday norm across many modern workplaces now.
Chapter 3: Effective management means stewarding others, yet managers often focus too much on personal success for themselves.
Chapter 4: Business training and workplace culture teach managers harmful habits.
Chapter 5: Managers fixate on their roles and protect them via double-dealing, posturing, and secrecy to secure status.
Chapter 6: Disrupting entrenched bad management is hard and demands leadership from the top to succeed.
Chapter 7: Leaders and managers can spark better management by dropping performance reviews.
Chapter 8: Embracing a new mindset, seeking feedback, and valuing honesty will improve management for everyone.
Description
Good People, Bad Managers (2017) argues that the culture of the modern American workplace is perpetuating bad management without our being aware of it. The current management culture of self-preservation leads to behavior that actively harms well-being, productivity and motivation. Culbert explores why so many good people are trapped in the cycle of bad management, and makes a case for cultural change in our workplaces.
Who Should Listen
- Managers looking to improve their business
- People who are interested in how work culture functions
- Those who want to challenge conventional management approaches