Illustrations by Ray Vella
To achieve management excellence, you need an awareness of faulty practices and a desire to change how you manage your employees. Managing individual behavior is the key to making the whole organization succeed. That requires an understanding of the basic behavior-based principles that drive good performance. Read on to learn about a baker's dozen of widespread misguided management practices and how you can correct them, courtesy of Aubrey Daniels' Oops! 13 Management Practices That Waste Time and Money (Performance Management Publications, 2009).