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Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
Audiobook7 hours

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

Written by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year

Best business book of the week from Inc.com

The 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.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperAudio
Release dateSep 15, 2015
ISBN9780062424853
Author

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.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent book about how leadership industry isn't based on fact but on what people wish it were. Great insights on how leaders are in real life and what to do.

    4 people found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Very good book on leadership that is grounded in reality

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    I always asked myself about how come there is a pattern of complete AHs in power everywhere I go, from work to volunteeringsettings. Now I understand why. Best!Book!Ever!
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
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    please have Islamic books as well to be balanced ok
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If a professor rewritten Dilbert as a thesis. Highly recommended


    Otherwise,Gotta fix the audio has it 'whistles'.