Confused men with name tags, I'm finding poor planning (13)
I believe the answer is:
mismanagement
'poor planning' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'confused men with name tags i'm' is the wordplay.
'confused' is an anagram indicator.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'men'+'name'+'tags'+'im'='mennametagsim'
'mennametagsim' is an anagram of 'MISMANAGEMENT'.
'finding' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mismanagement that I've seen before include "Poor stewardship" , "Bad running (of company)" , "Bad running (of something)" , "Maladministration" , "Poor running" .)