Cock-ups and cover-ups at work

Adrian Furnham
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Adrian Furnham: University College London

Chapter 11 in Managing People in a Downturn, 2011, pp 40-41 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We all make them: the cock-up at work. The un- or poorly proof-read report, full of errors; the clumsy, embarrassing presentation; the appraisal that leads to serious litigation; the insulted and pissed-off (very important) client. You get asked fundamental questions and you don’t know the answer. Your facts are out-of-date, or wrong. You deliver late without warning, and not what you promised. Like death and taxes and all that, these things happen; they are clearly inevitable at some time.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230307209_12

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