Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Certainly not a classic

"Beyond Management by Objectives" [1966] by Joseph Batten is rather disappointing and does not live up to the author's reputation. How this short volume ever made it to a second [1980] and then third [2003] printing is beyond me. Clearly his other two books "Tough-Minded Management" [1963] and "Tough-Minded Leadership" [1989] are superior, though in my opinion "Tough-Minded Management" is the better of the two. Readers will be hard pressed to find enough advanced leadership DNA in "Beyond Management by Objectives" so as to justify the two hours it takes them to read it.