Corporate-leadership satire
Who Put That Idiot in Charge?
By Simon Dudley
Corporate-leadership satire about dysfunctional management, misguided incentives and organisational absurdities.
About the book.
This is corporate-leadership satire. Simon uses humour and exaggeration to explore dysfunctional leadership, misguided incentives and the organisational absurdities that can become surprisingly normal.
The discussion questions turn the joke back toward everyday work: what gets rewarded, which habits create unnecessary work and what people feel unable to tell their leaders. Treat the satire as a prompt for reflection, rather than a literal management prescription.
Questions worth discussing.
Use these questions with your team or reading group. Record the evidence, the next action and who owns it.
- Where does our organization reward activity rather than outcomes?
- Which management habit creates work without improving the decision?
- What uncomfortable feedback are people reluctant to share with leadership?
- What one behavior could we change—and how would we judge its effect?
From reading to a decision.
Choose one question to investigate. Agree on what you need to learn, name an owner and set a date to revisit the evidence.