This book looks at current jargon & fads in management.

Fads in management --3 -- Management science? -- 9 -- Management training -- 10 -- Assumptions about people -- 14 -- Ability and ambition -- 17 -- Above the line -- 19 -- All interventions are equally effective -- 21 -- Atmospherics -- 23 -- Awards, citations and gongs -- 26 -- Blame culture -- 28 -- Breaking bad news -- 31 -- Bright boss -- 33 -- Casuistry, sophistry and spin -- 35 -- Choosing management courses -- 37 -- Compulsory training -- 40 -- Correcting cock-ups -- 42 -- Curse of perfectionism -- 44 -- Damned if you do and...don't -- 46 -- Dom and sub -- 48 -- Energy at work -- 50 -- Engagement to divorce -- 52 -- Evangelists at work -- 54 -- Everyone is a winner -- 56 -- Family business -- 58 -- From private to public -- 60 -- Fundamentalist gurus -- 62 -- Gullible executive -- 64 -- How not to use consultants -- 66 -- Human remains -- 68 -- Incommunicado -- 71 -- Incubation period -- 73 -- Inoculating the workforce -- 75 -- Integrity tests -- 77 -- Job fit In plain speak -- 80 -- Living In Sweden -- 83 -- Managing the post-materialist employee -- 85 -- Management psychiatry -- 88 -- Money as a motivator -- 92 -- Nepotism, corruption and incompetence -- 95 -- Networming -- 98 -- Nyet: stopping progress -- 100 -- Odd places: university management -- 102 -- Orality at work -- 105 -- Organizational defense mechanisms -- 107 -- Passive-aggressive bureaucrats -- 110 -- Personality of organizations -- 113 -- Professional recruiters -- 115 -- Protecting your legacy -- 117 -- A psychological MOT -- 119 -- Rank sensitivity -- 121 -- Recruitment to betrayal -- 123 -- A rock and a hard place -- 125 -- Seeking the savior -- 127 -- Shift work -- 129 -- Space exploration -- 131 -- Specialists and generalists -- 134 -- Speeches, sermons and seminar presentations -- 137 -- Striking a balance -- 139 -- Task and the process -- 141 -- Telephone tell-tales -- 143 -- Titular realities -- 145 -- Trust at work -- 147 -- Uncertainty avoidance -- 149 -- Understanding understatement -- 151 -- Why would anyone want to work for you? -- 153 -- Workplace spirituality -- 155 -- Manifestos -- 157 -- Mantras -- 159 -- Missions -- 164.