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Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Title
Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time / Jeffrey Pfeffer.
Author
Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Publication
  • New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
x, 259 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"'The leadership industry has failed,' charges Stanford Business School professor Pfeffer in this lively critique of a professional discipline driven, according to him, not by wisdom or a desire to foster leadership, but by money. Its precepts, he writes, are 'based more on hope than reality, on wishes rather than data, on beliefs instead of science.' Pfeffer sets out to help his readers rethink leadership by focusing on the root causes of failures in business leadership. Pfeffer counsels readers to look away from the 'inspiration and fables' that glut the market, and to accept that some of those truisms are fallible: authenticity can be overrated, and honesty is not always the best policy for leaders. Pfeffer has taken on an ambitious project, given the uniformity of current thinking on business success, but his bluntness should go a long way toward slaughtering the sacred cows of the leadership industry." --Publishers Weekly.
Alternative Title
Leadership bullshit
Subject
  • Leadership
  • Executive ability
  • Executives > Psychological aspects
  • Leadership > Psychological aspects
  • Leadership > Psychological aspects
  • Executive ability
  • Leadership
  • leadership
  • management development
  • organization development
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Things Are Bad--Here's Why -- Why Inspiration and Fables Cause Problems and Fix Nothing -- Modesty: Why Leaders Aren't -- Authenticity: Misunderstood and Overrated -- Should Leaders Tell the Truth--and Do They? -- Trust: Where Did It Go, and Why? -- Why Leaders "Eat" First -- Take Care of Yourself -- Fixing Leadership Failure: You Can Handle the Truth.
ISBN
  • 9780062383167
  • 0062383167
LCCN
2015490076
OCLC
  • ocn899226635
  • 899226635
  • SCSB-8779108
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library