How not to manage

One of my favourite observers of the management scene, Simon Caulkin, starts the New Year well in an interesting piece on the failings of management.
Heres a taste:
“Most companies are badly run not because theres too little management but because theres too much doing the wrong things. One academic, tongue only partly in cheek, suggests that one of the reasons for Britains notorious productivity gap is the large number of managers self-importantly making non-productive work for one another – one person to do the job and another two to check the job is done.”