# Who Put That Idiot in Charge?

Discussion guide · Simon Dudley

Corporate-leadership satire about dysfunctional management, misguided incentives and organisational absurdities.

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.

## Discussion questions

1. Where does our organization reward activity rather than outcomes?

2. Which management habit creates work without improving the decision?

3. What uncomfortable feedback are people reluctant to share with leadership?

4. What one behavior could we change—and how would we judge its effect?

## Next action

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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7J32FJP

This guide contains discussion prompts, not the book manuscript.