What are America’s Stupidest Management Practices?
Management guru Bob Sutton is off to conference in Singapore this week and on his consistently thought-provoking blog Work Matters he’s preparing for the event with a little thought experiment. Namely, he’s attempting to brainstorm the stupidest management practices of U.S. companies that remain inexplicably popular despite plenty of evidence against them. As fresh eyes on corporate America, newcomers to the world of work sometimes have the clearest view of what’s seriously silly about how a company does business — employees who have been with an organization for awhile accept things as standard that, to the uninitiated, simply seem stupid. So can we help Sutton out? Most of his examples below are drawn from higher up the company ranks (at…
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