From 52ee2d329871b0e236dc5d038df237dc34e7c769 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:51:38 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Book review: Manager's Answer Book --- content/reviews/books/managers-answer-book.md | 49 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reviews/books/managers-answer-book.md diff --git a/content/reviews/books/managers-answer-book.md b/content/reviews/books/managers-answer-book.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1bdf3a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/managers-answer-book.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ ++++ +title = "The Manager's Answer Book - Barbara Mitchell, Cornelia Gamlem" +date = 2021-08-25 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["reviews", "books", "books:2021", "management"] ++++ + +[OpenLibrary +Summary](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28202958M/The_Manager%27s_Answer_Book): +Powerful Tools to Maximize Your Impact and Influence, Build Trust and Teams, and +Respond to Challenges + + + +{{ stars(stars=2) }} + +Honestly, I didn't finish reading the book. + +First, the style of showing content by the way of questions doesn't quite fit +the way I read, specially when the questions are specially designed to provide +an answer -- and not the other way around. + +Second, most of the answers are quite obvious, in the style "How can I manage +X?" with the answer "Ask the people who were doing it in the first". Well, duh. + +Third, the question style is somewhat confusing. It uses the pattern of "I +read/saw/heard about X. What can I do about it?", with different styles of +X. There are even questions which one could almost say are non-sequiturs, like +(paraphrasing) "I'm a highly hands-on person, how can I write the reports the +financial team is asking me?". You can be both, and none of those two are +actually related. + +Fourth, there are a bunch of useless comments in the middle, which gives the +impression of filler, like "As a manager, you have to do several things." No +shit, Sherlock. + +And fifth, by 75% of the book, there was a question about what one should report +and I quote "Evidence of union activity should be reported to your human +resources or legal support as soon as possible. Early detection of and rapid +response to union activity has long been key to union avoidance." So, if I get +this right, it means that me, as a manager, should be a union busting asshole? +Fuck. Off. + +That's when I gave up. I was already tired of the style and then, instead of +suggesting speaking to people invested in it to check why they believe an union +is necessary or what could be done to avoid the creation of the union in the +first place. But no, you must report to legal so they can burst the whole thing +down. Great, what a great person you've become.