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Management and myths : challenging business fads, fallacies and fashions

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Accidents at work
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    Chapter 3 Acquiring people skills
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    Chapter 4 Addicted to consultants/ consultant dependency
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    Chapter 5 Barnum in business
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    Chapter 6 Behalfers
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    Chapter 7 The bullying boss
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    Chapter 8 Business books and Stalinist Realism
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    Chapter 9 Cash rich, time poor
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    Chapter 10 Conference stress
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    Chapter 11 Continuous assessment
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    Chapter 12 Control freak
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    Chapter 13 Delivering bad news
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    Chapter 14 Development plans
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    Chapter 15 Does coaching work?
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    Chapter 16 Emotional labour
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    Chapter 17 Expectations … and how to manage them
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    Chapter 18 Expensive experts/the consultant, the trainer and the facilitator
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    Chapter 19 Failing in business
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    Chapter 20 Fixers and inventors: semi and real creatives
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    Chapter 21 Fudging the happy sheets
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    Chapter 22 How to choose consultants
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    Chapter 23 Hypocritical management speak
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    Chapter 24 Ice breakers
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    Chapter 25 Integrity
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    Chapter 26 Intrinsic motivation
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    Chapter 27 Judging intelligence
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    Chapter 28 Kickin’ arse
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    Chapter 29 Knowledge college management
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    Chapter 30 Larks and owls
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    Chapter 31 Lumpers and splitters; halos and horns
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    Chapter 32 Lying in interviews
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    Chapter 33 Management apologetics
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    Chapter 34 Management literacy
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    Chapter 35 Management tips
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    Chapter 36 Marketing hubris and humility
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    Chapter 37 Money secrecy
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    Chapter 38 The M-word
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    Chapter 39 Nomadic workers
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    Chapter 40 Optimism
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    Chapter 41 Personality testing
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    Chapter 42 Problems of the board
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    Chapter 43 Psychologists in business
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    Chapter 44 Psychology of hoarding
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    Chapter 45 Selection mistakes
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    Chapter 46 Selling cost-saving devices
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    Chapter 47 Sociobiology and inheritance tax
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    Chapter 48 Strategic planning: who needs it?
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    Chapter 49 Support groups for CEOs
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    Chapter 50 Teaching old dogs new tricks
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    Chapter 51 Telling clients what they want to hear
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    Chapter 52 The Icarus syndrome
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    Chapter 53 Typical management style
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    Chapter 54 Unlocking talent
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    Chapter 55 Visitors from headquarters
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    Chapter 56 What makes a good business conference?
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    Chapter 57 Wisdom in business
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    Chapter 58 Work-life balance
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    Chapter 59 Conclusion
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Title
Management and myths : challenging business fads, fallacies and fashions
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2004
DOI 10.1057/9781403990037
ISBNs
978-1-4039-2204-5, 978-1-4039-9003-7
Authors

Furnham, Adrian

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ireland 1 17%
Unknown 5 83%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 33%
Student > Master 2 33%
Other 1 17%
Lecturer 1 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 2 33%
Psychology 1 17%
Decision Sciences 1 17%
Social Sciences 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%