Mismanaged
Bad leadership leaves a body count of ruined morale, burned budgets, and bankrupt companies. Mismanaged treats corporate incompetence like true crime. Each episode investigates a historic management failure, breaking down the evidence, profiling the suspects, and uncovering the lessons learned from the scene of the corporate crime.
3 | Hurricane Katrina and FEMA
A government agency that was once considered a national model got reorganized, defunded, and handed to someone with no relevant experience — right before the moment it was needed most. What followed was a case study in what happens when preparation is treated as optional.
2 | CEO that Likes Walking Around Barefoot Isn't Always the Best Fit
A CEO convinced the world his company was a revolution. It was a real estate business that forgot to pay its landlords.
1 | The Management of NASAs Challenger Incident
The Challenger disaster wasn't an accident. It was a decision — made the night before launch, in a phone call most people have never heard of, by managers who told their own engineers to sit down and stop worrying.
