Chapter 5

Management Antipatterns

Management antipatterns are the result of bad managers, management teams, or executives. In some cases, it might just be tolerating or amplifying the debilitating behavior of another team member, such as in Golden Child, Rising Upstart, or Warm Bodies. At other times it is a misguided, incompetent, or even malicious supervisor.

Management antipatterns are different from Bramson’s negative personality types. These personality types (or phenotypes, as we call them) describe singular behaviors to specific encounters. ...

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