MANAGEMENT MADNESS: The Fun of Bureaucratic Management

by Ajay Shukla

Had enough of books on Management ?
Thank God, this is not a book on management. This is a book on mismanagement ! Because it is a book on bureaucracy, Indian bureaucracy, and how they run things, and also run away from things.
Had enough of humour also ? Sick of jokes ?
Good. This is not a joke book. This is a very serious book, as serious as any bureaucrat can be when at work, about the serious business of running a government, and of running away from governance.
Sick of trivial things ?
Fine. This book deals with issues of life and death. Like -
What was the management principle behind the rising thrones of the Mughal emperors?
Why did the English colonizers develop Civil Lines in each city
How to deal with intelligent subordinates
What to do with management consultants if you can’t drown them
How to handle idiosyncratic bosses without manhandling them
What is non-communication
How to create a crisis when things are going too smooth for your liking
Eternal questions, but no answers. Parkinsons’ Laws are outdated. Peter Principle never worked in the first place.
Crazy interpretations. Sound solutions. And above all, first time revelations of what goes inside government offices.

121 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 14, 2014