Leadership BS : fixing workplaces and careers one truth at a time /

"'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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pfeffer, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of 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.