The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail

The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail
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346
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0875849490
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Harvard Business School Press
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Разное

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Does this scenario sound familiar? An employee you manage slips up somehow: a missed deadline, a lost account, or a weak presentation. You decide to oversee that person?s work more closely. After all, if your direct reports aren?t delivering, it?s your head that will roll. To further your frustration, the more you "help," the worse the employee?s performance becomes. What?s going on? In this eye-opening book, leadership experts Jean-Francois Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux expose a disturbing and surprisingly rampant phenomenon. While common wisdom assumes that so-called poor performers fail in spite of their boss?s best efforts, this book demonstrates exactly the opposite. In many cases, a boss?s attitudes and behaviors actually cause or "set up" certain individuals?including those with great potential?to fail. Based on ten years of study into boss-subordinate relationships, Manzoni and Barsoux show that this...

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