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Recent coverage 
Psychologie Heute (Juni 2003) – "Wie Chefs aus ihren Mitarbeitern Versager machen", by Annette Schaefer.  
Unisys Executive Magazine (April 2003) – "Breaking the Pattern", by Kristine Grow.  An interview with Jean-François Manzoni.
Training Magazine (April 2003) – Book review, by Janice Love.
HandelsZeitung - Schweizer wochenblatt für wirtschaft und management (26. March, 2003) – "Vom chef deklassiert", by Annette Schaefer.
HR.com (February 10, 2003) – "HR.com's Book of the year for 2002".
Business 2.0 (November 2002) – "How Your Boss is Hexing You", by Ian Mount.
HR Magazine (of the Society for Human Resource Management) (October 2002) – Book review.
JournalNet (Idaho State Journal's Online Publication) (September 30, 2002) – "Don't set others up to fail before you know them", by Jaine Carter and James D. Carter - Scripps Howard News.
 Financial Times (June 20, 2002: 12) – Richard Donkin: "Changing views of the workplace". 
 Description: "Changing views of workplace relations: The failure to manage poorly performing staff is often the result of a syndrome that is endemic from classroom to boardroom, a new book argues."  
   
 Q&A, August 2002: The authors talk with David Creelman from HR.com about what’s behind the set-up-to-fail syndrome.
 
 

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Press Release for Book of the Year Award
HR.com (February 10, 2003) – "HR.com's Book of the year for 2002".

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Written on and about related work by the authors
Computerworld (October 2002) – "Angst-Free Feedback For IT Managers : How to take the sting out of giving bad news", by Kathleen Melymuka (Q & A with JFM).
CFO.com (September 19, 2002) – "Talking the talk", by Lisa Yoon.

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 Past coverage of SUTFS 
 Financial Times (April 7, 1998, p. 17) – Lucy Kellaway – "Bosses who turn their staff into failures" 
 Description: MANAGEMENT CAREER DEVELOPMENT: Managers regularly blame employees for poor performance, when it is in fact their own fault. Lucy Kellaway looks at proposed remedies. 
   
 Harvard Management Update (November 1998) - Constantine von Hoffman – "Are you being set up to fail?", Volume 3, Number 11: 6 
 Description: A recent study published in Harvard Business Review shows that managers all over the world "create their own poor performers" by setting employees up to fail. The warning signs may be familiar – your boss seems to trust you less, questions your suggestions, and watches your every move. HMU consulted HR experts to find out how to cope if you find yourself in a set-up-to-fail situation. Includes a sidebar for managers who may be setting someone else up to fail. 
   
 The Boston Globe (March 31, 1998) – Diane Lewis: "When managers set up certain staffers to fail"  
 Description: Are managers at fault when employees fail? Often, they are. New research reported in the Harvard Business Review strongly suggests that managers, often accidentally and with the best intentions, play a significant role in employees’ failures. 
   
 The Systems ThinkerJanice Molloy: "Managing for Underperformance: The ‘Set-Up-To-Fail’ Syndrome," No, 10, Vol. 10 (1999) 
 

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 Articles without link 
Dallas morning News (October 6, 2002) – "The Dallas Morning News Business Book Review Column", by Steve Powers.
 Børsen (April 17 1998) – Af Gynther Adolphsen: "Sådan kvæler chefer job-motivationen" 
   
 Elle (Märtz 1999, p.206) – Stefan Skiera and Christa V. Bernuth, "Erfolg ist Chefsache" 
   
 Süddeutsche Zeitung (September 12, 1998) – Uschi Johe, "Der Ober sticht den Unter, der Rest ist Theorie"  
 Description : Der Ober sticht den Unter, der Rest ist Theorie An den Machtverhaeltnissen hat sich kaum wasgeaendert, doch nicht nur die Chefs, auch dieMitarbeiter muessen an sich arbeiten.
 
 

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