Critique of Management Reason
Critique of Management Reason
Management Bits and Tips from Can’t
About the Book
This book is an anthology of posts on people and project management from 2008 to 2010, when the author was a manager and was roaming between management training sessions. It started as a blog, Management Bits and Tips: Reflections on Software Engineering and Software Technical Support Management, which now survives as a Facebook page, ManagementBits. When the author returned to engineering after management in 2009, he wanted to publish a book with the original title, Management Bits: An Anthology from Reductionist Manager. Around 2015, he changed its title to Critique of Management Reason: Management Bits and Tips from Can't and added a few more bits as late as 2017.
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Table of Contents
Preface 9
About the Author 10
Management Bits and Tips 12
Management Bit and Tip 0x1 12
Management Bit and Tip 0x2 14
Management Bit and Tip 0x4 15
Management Bit and Tip 0x8 16
Management Bit and Tip 0x10 18
Management Bit and Tip 0x20 20
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Man Agement Aphorisms 45
Project Failure Analysis Patterns 47
Introduction 47
Part 1 49
Part 2 51
Part 3 53
Software Industrial Language 55
Science Fiction and Management 56
Part 1 56
Part 2 57
Management Poetics 58
Part 1 58
Part 2 59
Management Philosophy 60
Management Dialectics 60
Management: Analysis and Synthesis 61
Heidegger at Work 63
Fichte at Work 65
Existential Meaning of Endorsements 66
Managing Reading 67
Preemptive Multireading 67
Cooperative Multireading 69
Strategic and Tactical Personal Learning 71
Physics and Mathematics for Managers 72
Digitizing a Manager 72
Mean Performance Separator 74
Twin Employee Paradox: Special and General Relativity of Career 76
Set Theory for Managers 77
Luck-Lines: Special and General Relativity of Success 78
How to Spot Statistics Talent 79
Classical and Quantum Mechanical Employees 80
LAMB: Laboratory of Abnormal Management Behavior 81
Thermodynamics of Career 83
Promotional Waves Detected 84
Another Meaning of NDA 85
YS Milestones 86
Downfloored or Upfloored? 87
Corporate Canteens 88
A Guide to Corporate Canteens 88
The Rise in Interest in Corporate Canteens 90
Q&~A: BIQ Questions 92
Books 93
Book Proposals 93
Book Review: Managing Humans 94
Missing Chapters from Management Books 95
Fine Collection of Management Antipatterns 97
Expectations, Expectations… 99
Bullshit Bibliophilia 100
A Thread Was Killed 101
Hidden Transcripts 102
Local Workplace Guides 104
The Science of Career Promotions 105
Two Faces of Mess and Management 106
Sabotage Studies 107
Process Parasites 108
Definition 108
Contributing Process Parasite 110
Miscellaneous 111
ECHO Stages of Corporate Citizenship 111
KAKA POPs: KAKA Principle of Power Shift 112
Signs That You Have an Extraordinary Employee 114
How to Talk About God in a Job Interview 115
Management Programming Language 116
Remeritus Employee vs. Emeritus Remployee 117
ZenIdle 118
Management and History 119
Employee’s Shelfie 120
More Than the Right Interview Answers 121
Difficult Choice: Engineering vs. Science vs. Management 122
How to Get Ideas in the Office 123
Management Tyrants 124
Persistent Quotes 125
Another Meaning of ROFL 126
The Simplest Presentation Explained 127
We Got a Reference 129
ERRoR: Employee Record Repository of Reports 130
OWE: Out-of-Warranty Employee 131
Employment Relationship: A Marital Analogy 132
The 48 Laws of Intellectual Power 134
Signs of Overqualification 135
Relativization of Stress 136
On Management Amnesia 137
Customer Relationship Martyr 138
Flattening My Management 139
Rhetorical Question Disorder 140
Managerial Stoicism 141
Expertise-Driven Motivation 142
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