Leadership BS, Jeffrey Pfeffer
Leadership BS, Jeffrey Pfeffer
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Leadership BS
Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 7 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2015

Synopsis

Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearBest business book of the week from Inc.comThe author of Power, Stanford business school professor, and a leading management thinker offers a hard-hitting dissection of the leadership industry and ways to make workplaces and careers work better.The leadership enterprise is enormous, with billions of dollars, thousands of books, and hundreds of thousands of blogs and talks focused on improving leaders. But what we see worldwide is employee disengagement, high levels of leader turnover and career derailment, and failed leadership development efforts.In Leadership BS, Jeffrey Pfeffer shines a bright light on the leadership industry, showing why it’s failing and how it might be remade. He sets the record straight on the oft-made prescriptions for leaders to be honest, authentic, and modest, tell the truth, build trust, and take care of others. By calling BS on so many of the stories and myths of leadership, he gives people a more scientific look at the evidence and better information to guide their careers.Rooted in social science, and will practical examples and advice for improving management, Leadership BS encourages readers to accept the truth and then use facts to change themselves and the world for the better.

About Jeffrey Pfeffer

Jeffrey Pfefferis the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including Leadership B.S., Power, The Human Equation, Managing with Power, and The Knowing-Doing Gap. Pfeffer has led seminars in thirty-nine countries and for numerous US companies, associations, and universities. He has won many awards for his writing, has an honorary doctorate from Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and was listed in the top 25 management thinkers by Thinkers50, and as one of the Most Influential HR International Thinkers by HR Magazine. He lives in Hillsborough, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Allys on January 07, 2018

Good exploration of why leadership self-help is, in fact, bullshit. No barriers to entry in leadership industry, no credentials necessary or readily required, vague terms, little evidence, lots of inspiration that doesn’t mesh with reality. His final chapter offers some prescriptions for “how to fac......more

Goodreads review by Eric on October 07, 2015

Outstanding book! Would give it 10 stars if I could. Of course I'd expect nothing less from Pfeffer. In the spirit of some of his prior books (e.g., Knowing-Doing Gap, Half Truths and Utter Nonsense), Pfeffer uses the academic management /psychology/ social science literature to debunk many common m......more

Goodreads review by Eli on May 13, 2017

Loved this non-inspiring, real-politic survey of leadership. Particularly the attention paid to game-theory based analysis of incentives of leaders in various organizations. I found the book's approach of singling out exceptional companies, yet also illustrating consequences of assuming all organiza......more

Goodreads review by Steve on October 30, 2015

A very good book. Pfeffer, in the process of debunking "feel good" theories of what makes a good leader, sees the business world as it is, and the way it is is often nasty real-politik. Best to be clear-eyed about it. Pfeffer likes virtue but recognizes it does not prevail a good part of the time. I......more

Goodreads review by Christian on April 24, 2021

The author mostly laments state and methods of today’s "leadership advice" industry. Don't waste your time if you have seen a university from the inside. Yes most US books on any popular issue are not worth reading as they are totally unscientific and sometimes outright fantastical - management book......more

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