Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Have you ever had a boss that made you wonder how they ever got promoted? Have you ever seen someone hired to lead an organization and they left it far worse than they found it? How did they become so poor with their leadership and management skills? In this hilarious and entertaining satire, we learn that terrible leaders and managers might have actually gone to school to learn how to be poor at leading employees and managing organizations. Unlike your traditional leadership and management books, this humorous story line follows Michael Purcell, a student who has been admitted to a graduate program at a prestigious university known for producing terrible leaders and managers. It is Michael's desire to actually become an awful leader and manager that destroys morale, gossips with employees, micromanages, and disciplines his employees in public. Follow Michael through eleven different classes in his graduate program where unique and notable professors teach terrible leadership and management traits to the future corporate and government bosses who aspire to wreak havoc and trample on others. Through the telling of Michael's story, you actually learn what NOT to do if you wish to become an outstanding leader and manager.
Synopsis
Michael Purcell aspired to become a terrible leader and manager like so many we work for in government and the private sector. In this fictitious and humorous satire, Michael finally gains acceptance to a business school that specializes in producing terrible leaders and managers. Michael was accepted to the Butterbeck School of Mismanagment. Sitting on the banks of the Hudson River, the prestigious Butterbeck School of Mismanagement was like no other school and was renowned for producing the many terrible leaders and managers who can be found all through government and private corporations. Follow Michael as he moves from class to class in his Master's program where he learns from distinguished professors who teach the principles of micromanaging, gossiping with employees, being a dictator in the workplace, disciplining employees in public, plus many attributes of terrible leadership. You may even recognize one of your own bosses and wonder if they graduated from the Butterbeck School of Mismanagement.