The Good Managers Guide 2026: Corporate Leadership Handbook

The Good Manager's Guide 2026: Official Corporate Leadership Handbook is a razor-sharp satirical handbook that takes every dreaded workplace cliché and turns it into "official" management doctrine.Presented as a polished corporate training manual, the book offers a tongue-in-cheek collection of absurd leadership principles covering pay, productivity, surveillance, morale, communication, discipline, promotions, and workplace culture. From squeezing maximum output for minimum investment and moving performance goalposts, to weaponising feedback, claiming credit for employees' ideas, and mastering the art of micromanagement, every chapter exaggerates familiar office frustrations to expose the darker side of toxic management.Written in the style of a genuine corporate handbook, each section delivers deadpan humour through mock policies, executive jargon, and exaggerated "best practices" that will feel all too familiar to anyone who has ever worked under a difficult boss.Whether you've endured impossible targets, endless spreadsheets, performative "open-door policies," or managers who somehow take credit for everyone else's work, you'll recognise pieces of your own workplace hidden between the pages.Perfect for employees, managers with a sense of humour, office workers, HR professionals, and anyone who enjoys The Dilbert Principle, The Office, or biting workplace satire, The Good Manager's Guide 2026 is both hilarious and uncomfortably relatable.Because sometimes the best way to expose terrible management... is to write the handbook they seem to be following.