The Most Expensive Manager
Why It Is Not the One You Think
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Pub Date 2 Oct 2026 | Archive Date 15 Apr 2027
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Description
Every company knows exactly what its managers are paid. Not one knows what they cost.
That one sentence is the reason this book exists — and why you'll never read an org chart the same way again.
The Most Expensive Manager makes a case most leadership books are too polite to make: organizations don't collapse from one catastrophic decision. They erode, quietly, under managers who drive away good people, stop hearing bad news, slow everything down, or let standards slip one inch at a time — none of which ever shows up on a budget line.
Dr. Saeed Al Badi opens with Google's own famous experiment: removing managers entirely. It lasted months before engineers were pleading for someone, anyone, to make decisions again. From there, the book builds a rigorous, often uncomfortable case for what bad management actually costs — in attrition, in silence, in momentum, in reputation — and then hands readers something almost no leadership book bothers to include: a working formula to calculate it.
The Appendix alone — "The Management Debt Estimator" — turns abstract warnings into a number any reader can calculate for their own team in under an hour.
Sharp, data-literate, and refreshingly free of leadership-book platitudes, this is a book for anyone who has ever suspected that the real cost of bad management is simply never being billed — and wanted the arithmetic to prove it.
Perfect for: readers of Multipliers, The Making of a Manager, and Good to Great — and for any manager, HR leader, or founder who has ever quietly wondered what their own leadership is actually costing the business.
A Note From the Publisher
Marketing Plan
Marketing Plan: THE MOST EXPENSIVE MANAGER
Campaign Objective
The primary objective is to introduce The Most Expensive Manager: Why It Is Not the One You Think to readers interested in business, management, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. The campaign aims to generate qualified reader requests, encourage thoughtful and honest feedback, increase discoverability, and build awareness of the author’s work.
Target Audience
The campaign will focus on business professionals, managers, executives, entrepreneurs, HR professionals, leadership practitioners, management consultants, and readers interested in organizational performance and workplace effectiveness.
Core Marketing Message
Organizations often underestimate the hidden costs of ineffective management. This book explores how management decisions, leadership behaviors, and unresolved workplace problems can create organizational costs, and offers practical ways to recognize and address them.
Marketing Channels
The author will promote the book through LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Amazon advertising, professional articles, and short-form educational videos. Content will highlight common management challenges, warning signs, their organizational consequences, and practical solutions discussed in the book.
NetGalley Strategy
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Success Measures
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Long-Term Objective
The campaign is intended to establish the author’s credibility in management and leadership, build awareness of the book, and develop a foundation for promoting additional books on hiring, leadership, organizational culture, and performance management.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9798178532270 |
| PRICE | |
| PAGES | 137 |