Good people.
Bad decisions.
Excellent material.
A refreshingly honest look at management, leadership and the workplace — for anyone who's worked with a bad manager, or occasionally been one.
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Management advice for the rest of us.
BAD Management is an independent magazine about the wonderful, frustrating and occasionally ridiculous world of work. We explore why organisations make questionable decisions, why management goes wrong, and what we can learn from it — including when we're the ones getting it wrong.
We take the ideas seriously. Ourselves, rather less so.
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Stories, opinions and sharp observations about leadership, corporate politics and organisational dysfunction.
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Short, practical ebooks to help you navigate career transitions — from your first management job to leading other managers.
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Useful checklists, templates and frameworks for real challenges, from running better one-to-ones to delegating properly.
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Leadership, politics, organisational absurdity and the occasional useful idea.
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Bad management isn't always about bad people. Sometimes it's incentives, structures, politics and perfectly reasonable decisions producing ridiculous outcomes.
We think those stories are worth telling — and learning from.