The Set-up-to-fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail
- ISBN-10
- 0875849490
- ISBN-13
- 9780875849492
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard Business Press
- Authors
- Jean-Francois Manzoni, Jean-Louis Barsoux
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