13 fatal errors managers make and how you can avoid them

5 Responses to “13 fatal errors managers make and how you can avoid them”

1. Kris, on January 7th, 2010 at 4:35 am Said:

   I’m not a manager, and don’t aspire to be one. Except to manage myself, that’s plenty.

   As far as other people, well, yes, I see that managers are needed in the profit economy: They have to make sure that the workers (labor) help maximize the profit of the company.

   W. Steven Brown does have experience in this area, and he sprinkles his personal stories throughout this book. The personal stories are the best part. I think he should have written a book only with personal stories. A lot of the other stuff is dull and common sensical.

   Brown comes through this book as a reasonable person, a consultant and a self-described teacher. What he seems to lack, what the whole capitalist system seems to lack, is heart, not the organ itself of course but the feeling of thinking beyond the system, outside of the system. Heart could mean treating people as individuals rather than a piece of the system. It’s not Brown’s fault, that’s just the way the capitalist system works.

   And it probably wouldn’t work if managers were humanitarians and altruists. This is what Brown is emphasizing. Yes, they have to give the illusion of being humanitarians and altruists, but they can’t actually be that. They have to ensure that the bottom line is black, or, guess what, they lose.

   I like John Heider’s book, The Tao of Leadership, better. Those who lead least lead best. Yes, this may be an unachievable ideal in the capitalist society, but I’m a dreamer, I mentioned that, not a manager.

   Diximus.
   Rating: 3 / 5

2. Anonymous, on January 7th, 2010 at 4:42 am Said:

   The book is really simple, it finds, explains, make examples, and solve 13 of the most common and fatal errors managers commit. I used this book on college for my bachellor’s and it helped me a lot.
   Rating: 5 / 5

3. Anonymous, on January 7th, 2010 at 4:53 am Said:

   After reading many other managerial texts, I find this book to be standard and common sense. I would only recommend this book to those who are very knew to management and have not read much on this topic.
   Rating: 2 / 5

4. Christine Certo, on January 7th, 2010 at 7:20 am Said:

   Managers in our organization were assigned one of the errors and then were asked to review at a staff meeting with the other managers including how they would plan to apply the correction of the error in managing their own divisions. Is a quick read and an easy-to- understand book for any manager wishing to quickly and easily improve the basics and the way their managers manage. I recommend it!
   Rating: 4 / 5

5. Aung Htun, on January 7th, 2010 at 10:03 am Said:

   “13 Fatal Errors Managers Make

   In this program, W. Steven Brown, a nationally recognized professional and consultant, OUTLINES THE THIRTEEN MOST COMMON ERRORS MANAGERS AT ALL LEVELS MAKE AND SHOWS they are disastrous to any successful management effort.
   He then goes on to show HOW to avoid them by anticipating the tendency to make them.

   W. Steven Brown founded and is currently president of the Fortune Group, an Atlanta-based corporation which markets a wide range of business and personal development services. ”

   [from the back cover of the cassette case]
   Rating: 5 / 5