Become a better manager by challenging the myths of commonly accepted management wisdom A humorous review of current management practice with a very serious message, The Management Mythbuster makes an entertaining case for questioning much of the conventional wisdom that pervades the corporate world today. Through contrarian and provocative points of view, real world examples and deep analysis, author and management thought leader David Axson offers over a dozen short, pithy commentaries on the important issues in management today: * Short chapters on popular management practices, theories, tools and behaviors * A humorous review of current management practice, with an underlying serious message * The fallacies of conventional management wisdom revealed and refuted * Exposes the fallacies of standard management thinking If you are brave enough, this concise, easily read book is for you, returning a sense of common-sense perspective to the practice of management. Are you brave enough? "We've finally lost it! All sense of perspective has disappeared from the practice of management, buried under the overwhelming weight of methodologies, theories, best practices, models, tools, systems, processes, benchmarks, scorecards, competencies, mission statements, and value propositions. Common sense has been subjugated by nonsense!" --David Axson, from The Management Mythbuster As the world was rocked by the near collapse of the global financial system in 2008, the time had arrived to take a closer look at many of the practices and processes that govern much of modern management behavior, practices that promised to revolutionize corporate operations and turbocharge the bottom line, yet had been found wanting. Enter The Management Mythbuster, a humorous review of current management practice. Author and management thought leader David Axson: * Reveals and refutes the fallacies of conventional management wisdom * Exposes the myths of standard management thinking * Untangles the maze of management myths with short chapters on popular, management practices, theories, tools, and behaviors * Proposes a "new normal" in doing business, set to the world we actually live in, with unpredictability, turbulence, and volatility as part of the daily scenery This book is for you if you are among those who have found the traditional rules and processes in planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, accounting, and risk management to have become obsolete, and if you long for a more relevant way to navigate today's business world. Become part of the new generation of informed, skeptical, risk-aware, decisive--and yes, brave--managers, with the commonsense perspective found in The Management Mythbuster.