Mad, Sad & Bad Management

This entertaining and instructive book contains some five dozen analyses on aspects of modern business and management. The book starts with an aperitif an ends with a substantial digestif. T eh theme is incompetence rather than competence, stupidity rather than wisdom and insanity rather than sanity. Overall, Adrian Furnham takes an enthusiastic, more than a cynical, look at management practices, managers and management science. His inspirationstarted with the serious literature on management, which he finds somewhat dull-who can argue?- moved onto the guru-inspired, magic-formula texts and was finally spiced up by real-life accounts of failures and cock-ups to be found in the popular press and in his own consultancy. This is a book to be dipped into, taking the humour and the messages with equal relish.