Have you ever worked on a doomed project? Have you ever had to deal with a terrible manager or on a dysfunctional team? This book documents toxic personality types, dysfunctional management situations and misaligned organizational environments as antipatterns – patterns of behavior that hinder progress, feed animosity and destroy trust. Learn about what causes these common problems and how to overcome them to build effective teams and organizations.

We catalogued 49 antipatterns that limit team effectiveness, doom projects, and threaten organizational success.

The catalog is divided into antipatterns that effect team and project management, called Management Antipatterns:

§ Absentee Manager § All You Have Is A Hammer § Cage Match Negotiator § Doppelganger § Fruitless Hoops § Golden Child § Headless Chicken § Leader Not Manager § Managerial Cloning § Manager Not Leader § Metric Abuse

§ Mr. Nice Guy § Mushroom Management § Plate Spinning § Proletariat Hero § Rising Upstart § Road to Nowhere § Spineless Executive § Three-Headed Knight § Ultimate Weapon § Warm Bodies

And antipatterns that operate at the organizational level, called Environmental Antipatterns:

Ant Colony Atlas Shrug Autonomous Collective Boiling Frog Syndrome Burning Bag of Dung Buzzword Mania Deflated Balloon Divergent Goals Dogmatic About Dysfunction Dunkirk Spirit Emperors New Clothes Fairness Doctrine Fools Rush In Founderitis

French Waiter Syndrome Geek Hazing Institutional Mistrust Kiosk City Mediocracy One Eyed King Orange Stand Economics Pitcairn Island Potemkin Village Process Clash Rubiks Cube Shoeless Children Worshiping The Golden Calf