Incompetence

Author : Rob Grant
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575127600
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incompetence written by Rob Grant and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad is the new good. In the not too distant future the European Union enacts its most far reaching human rights legislation ever. The incompetent have been persecuted for too long. After all it's not their fault they can't do it right, is it? So it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate against anyone for being incompetent. And now a murder has been committed and our possibly incompetent detective must find out who the murderer is. As long as he can find directions to get him through the mean streets.

Author : Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457181223
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presumed Incompetent written by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators. The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America.

Author : Gabriel Ginebra
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
ISBN 13 : 1607287498
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Incompetence written by Gabriel Ginebra and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Day-in, day-out, managers and supervisors face a myriad of personalities in the workplace. Managing these individual characters can sometimes drive even the calmest boss into a frenzy. Here, for the first time in English, is a humorous, yet practical and effective title on how to deal with all those seemingly ‘incompetent’ people on your staff. Step-by-step, author Gabriel Ginebra guides you through the ‘Fougi Model’ to diagnose inefficiencies; and through this process, you’ll learn how to discern and improve people’s behaviors in the workplace. Business readers the world over have been impressed with this innovative approach to managing staff; you too, can benefit from this wisdom. You will learn how to: Revolutionize your managing style using the "Fougi Model." Diagnose inefficiencies within your staff. Discern and improve people's behaviors in the workplace.

Author : Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1633696332
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men. In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it so hard for competent people--especially competent women--to advance? Marshaling decades of rigorous research, Chamorro-Premuzic points out that although men make up a majority of leaders, they underperform when compared with female leaders. In fact, most organizations equate leadership potential with a handful of destructive personality traits, like overconfidence and narcissism. In other words, these traits may help someone get selected for a leadership role, but they backfire once the person has the job. When competent women--and men who don't fit the stereotype--are unfairly overlooked, we all suffer the consequences. The result is a deeply flawed system that rewards arrogance rather than humility, and loudness rather than wisdom. There is a better way. With clarity and verve, Chamorro-Premuzic shows us what it really takes to lead and how new systems and processes can help us put the right people in charge.

Author : Norman F. Dixon
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465097812
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Psychology of Military Incompetence written by Norman F. Dixon and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century and a half of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are these simple accidents—as the “bloody fool” theory has it—or are they inevitable? The psychologist Norman Dixon argues that there is a pattern to inept generalship, a pattern he locates within the very act of creating armies in the first place, which in his view produces a levelling down of human capability that encourages the mediocre and limits the gifted. A classic study of military leadership, On the Psychology of Military Incompetence is both an original exploration of infamous modern battles and an essential guide for the next generation of military leaders.

Author : RAYMOND. HULL HULL (RAYMOND. PETER, DR LAURENCE J.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788166058
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peter Principle written by RAYMOND. HULL HULL (RAYMOND. PETER, DR LAURENCE J.) and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a hierarchy, every employee rises to the level of their own incompetence.This simple maxim, defined by this classic book over 40 years ago, has become a beacon of truth in the world of work. From the civil service to multinational companies to hospital management, it explains why things constantly go wrong: promotion up a hierarchy inevitably leads to over-promotion and incompetence. Through barbed anecdotes and wry humour the authors define the problem and show how anyone, whether at the top or bottom of the career ladder, can avoid its pitfalls. Or, indeed, avoid promotion entirely!

Author : Chris Argyris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780000865014
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skilled Incompetence written by Chris Argyris and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suresh Canagarajah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000548546
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Incompetence written by Suresh Canagarajah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is framed as a memoir of the author’s journey through a cancer diagnosis and resulting impairments, as he continued his teaching and research activities during and after medical procedures. The narrative weaves together theoretical debates, textual analyses, and ethnographic data from communicative practices to redefine language competence. The book demonstrates: the generative and resistant value of human vulnerability the importance of vulnerability in motivating engagement with social networks and material ecologies for productive thinking, communication, and community the role of relational ethics in social and communicative life a decolonizing orientation to disability studies and language competence. While language competence was traditionally defined as mentally internalized grammatical knowledge for individual mastery of communication, this book demonstrates the need for distributed, ethical, and embodied practice. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in language and literacy studies. It would interest scholars outside these disciplines to understand what language studies can offer to address the role of disabilities, impairments, and debilities in embodied communication and thinking. In the context of the global pandemic, compounded by environmental catastrophes and structural injustices which disproportionately affect marginalized communities, the book helps readers treat human vulnerability as the starting point for ethical social relations, strategic communication, and transformative education.

Author : Max Boot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out Of Order written by Max Boot and published by . This book was released on 1998-05-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that has sparked controversy on both sides of the political fence. Investigative reporter Max Boot blows the whistle on what he sees as the most destructive branch of government-the judiciary. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Author : Thomas F. Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780937100219
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Incompetence written by Thomas F. Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Gilbert (1927-1995) was a psychologist who is often referred to as the founder of the field of performance technology, also known as Human Performance Technology (HPT). He never completed this autobiography. Clearly, he was still on a journey of discovery with numerous unfinished manuscripts in draft awaiting final revision and publication. Tom's own words introduce his story best. "...I had studied all there was to be known about human learning and that field was a complete mess. I felt I was going to have to do with it what Descartes had done with philosophy, start all over from scratch...Just before going my own way to reconstruct all of psychology...I sat down with [B.F.] Skinner's first book, "The Behavior of Organisms". This was about 1955, and I was a young assistant professor at the University of Georgia. I've never been the same since." While going through a number of storage boxes several years ago, Marilyn Gilbert, Tom's wife of twenty-seven years, found his unfinished autobiography. This book is that work, untouched, which provides intriguing insight into a man who has been referred to as one of the top three most brilliant American psychologists of the twentieth century."--publisher description.