Managing people in a downturn / Adrian Furnham.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218) and index.

A Paradox Resolved -- Ability, Aspiration, Attitude -- The Abnormal Boss -- Achieving Staff Engagement -- The Annual Conference -- Anti-Management -- Blind-Date and Speed Dating -- Bridge Employment -- Business and the Media -- The Chain of Happiness -- Changeability -- City Survivors Guilt -- Cock Ups and Cover Ups at Work -- Communicate, Communicate, Communicate -- Conspiracy at Work -- Dark Triads and Toxic Triangles -- Dealing with Opponents -- Defending the Self -- The Disaffected Worker -- Divergent Thinking -- Does Coaching Work? -- Dysfunctional Credentialism -- Elite Performers -- Employ-Worthiness -- Engagement isn't Enough -- The Entrepreneurial Shift -- Executive Derailment -- Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad -- The Gaff Prone Ceo -- Good Advice -- Half A Mo -- Hire Positive People -- How Management Style Leads Directly to Profit and Loss -- How to be Happy -- The Identification of High Flyers -- Implicit Assumptions -- Incentivising Presentism -- Iq Testing at Work -- Is Management Getting Harder -- Life After Lay Off -- Managerial Educability -- Managerial In-Experience -- Neuro-Everything -- Nice Guys Come Second -- The Normality of Silos -- The Offsite Strategy Meeting -- On the Other Hand -- The Personality Of Interviewers -- Political Skills -- Process, Profit and People -- Reassuringly Expensive -- Restorative Justice at Work -- Sack 'Em All -- Segmenting the Sat Nav Market -- Selecting a Prime Minister or President -- Servant Leadership -- Seven Steps to Happiness -- Sex at Work -- Shapers of Destiny -- So What is Potential? -- Spotting Leadership Potential -- Strong Situations -- Superego Vs. Super Ego -- Taking An Hr Exam -- Three As -- Three Journeys -- Time at Work -- Time Perspectives -- Time Watching -- The Unethical Manager -- Value Clashes -- The Valuelessness of Knowledge -- What's The Point of Theory -- Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur -- Working Abroad -- The Young Ceo.

A collection of engaging and thought-provoking essays looking at the world of business and management during a recession. Furnham takes a sideways look at some business issues that are often brushed under the carpet and examines recent academic contributions to business literature in an amusing and jargon-free style.