Managed by Morons

The Path to a Thriving Organisation. Avoiding the Pitfalls That Stand in Your Way

By: James Lawther

Narrated by: James Lawther

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

The antidote to mediocre management: learn it and become a better boss.

Management is easy, but the corporate claptrap does get in the way. The organizational rituals you must endure do nothing for your business's success. SMART goals are not smart; the annual round of target setting and budgeting is a management power game, and employee performance management is for fools. – If it is such a great idea, why don't you try it at home? Tell your partner they are "below standard" and highlight their "development opportunities". Will this improve their performance?

You don't need an Executive MBA to be a captain of industry. Nor do you need to climb on the bandwagon of the next big thing. Management by Objectives, Best Practice Benchmarking and the Tao of Transformational Leadership have all been . . . and gone (though you might need some Artificial Intelligence to sift through all that Big Data).

There are easier ways to create flourishing workplaces.

James Lawther spent a third of a century in corporate Britain. He was taken in by leadership gurus, seduced by technology, and fleeced by management consultants. But he learned how to build a thriving organization along the way. There is no secret sauce, and like all good things, it is simple when you know how.

Buy this book and rediscover the obvious. Your customers, employees (and bosses) will love you for it.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Kenneth James Lawther (P)2024 Kenneth James Lawther

Everything all in one place!

I read this book first - in paper - which I never do! Let's be honest, I read the first few chapters and skimmed the rest.

But then the audiobook came out. This is how I get most things these days and I breezed through it in a couple of days driving around to different projects.

You could read 50 other books, or just read this one. It's like the cliff notes of all those other books - just the bits you need, nothing more, with just enough self deprecating sarcasm to keep things interesting.

TBH there's really nothing here that is new or particularly innovative in the book. In fact, he says that right up front.

What it is, however, is a distillation of so many other books based on years of experience. It keeps all the good bits, throws out the fluff and just gets the job done.

It's not going to blow your socks off, give you a blinding flash of innovation, or make you become part of a cult.

What it will do is leave you with the tools you need to make your team effective, treat people with dignity and generally help make the world a better place one team at a time.