In Good People, Bad Managers: How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions, author Samuel A. Culbert makes readers aware of the habits that are routinely followed by well-intended managers. He offers case studies demonstrating how to conduct themselves in a manner that contributes to the common good and practical advice for effecting necessary cultural change in the workplace.
Samuel A. Culbert is an award-winning author, researcher, and professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. His laboratory is the world of work where he puts conventional managerial assumptions under a microscope to uncover and replace dysfunctional practices.
Dr. Culbert is the winner of a McKinsey Award for an article published in the Harvard Business Review, is a frequent contributor to management journals, and has authored numerous chapters in leading management books. His other authored and co-authored books include The Organization Trap; The Invisible War: The Pursuit of Self-Interests at Work;; Power Politics and the Pursuit of Trust; Get Rid of the Performance Review; Don’t Kill the Bosses!; and Good People, Bad Managers.