博客來Guaranteed to Fail as a Manager
How to demotivate your team, dodge accountability, and still look ＂busy.＂
Ever wondered how some leaders manage to be everywhere-in every thread, every meeting, every decision-while nothing actually moves?
Congratulations. You’re holding the anti-guide.
Guaranteed to Fail as a Manager is sharp workplace satire for anyone who’s ever survived a ＂quick sync＂ that ate their day, watched a decision die in a follow-up, or received an email chain so long it became organizational history.
This book doesn’t teach leadership by telling you what to do. It teaches leadership by showing you what people do when they’re doing it wrong-with perfect tone, maximum process, and just enough ＂context＂ to ensure nobody can accuse you of clarity.
Inside you’ll meet the greatest hits of modern management failure:
The manager-as-bottleneck who calls it ＂quality＂
＂Agile leadership＂ that translates to vanishing
Weekly syncs that run forever and decide nothing
The ＂quick question＂ Slack thread that destroys focus by 9:02 a.m.
The CC chain that proves transparency can be a fog machine
The KPI report that turns warning signs into a stable green corridor
The Dictionary of Leadership Words (alignment, ownership, empowerment, and other spells)
Choose-your-own-disaster crossroads where every path leads to silence
Format-wise, it’s deliberately chaotic (like your week): chat logs, transcripts, memos, KPI dashboards, email chains, mini-scenes, and short chapters that end with one thing you can always count on:
A Checklist for Guaranteed Failure (concrete steps, painfully doable, ethically questionable).
Who this is for
New managers who suspect they’re accidentally becoming ＂the filter＂
Experienced leaders who want to laugh without crying (or cry while laughing)
Anyone who lives in meetings, approvals, ＂alignment,＂ and polite postponement
Teams who want to understand the mechanics of how momentum gets suffocated-nicely
Important note: This is satire. Please don’t do this.
If you recognize yourself, welcome to the club. If you don’t, please forward this to your manager-cc everyone for transparency.
