Publication

2015 - Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

64,750 words, Guess

Page Count

259 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780062383167
  • Open LibraryOL27190662M

Classifications

  • DDC658.4/092
  • LCCHD57.7 .P487 2015
  • LCCHD57.7 .P4915 2015
and 1 more
  • LCCHD57.7.P4915 2015

Alternate Titles

  • Leadership bullshit

Description

"'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."--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Leadership BS: fixing workplaces and careers one truth at a timeHarper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers2015-01-01

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