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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.
媒体推荐“Sensible advice...” (The Economist)
“Jeff Pfeffer stands as one of the great management thinkers of our time. Here in this important work, he challenges us to embrace a hippocratic oath of leadership: first do no harm. Diagnostic and prescriptive, passionate and incisive, provocative and inspired-Pfeffer yet again makes a noble contribution.” (—Jim Collins, author Good to Great, co-author Built to Last and Great by Choice)
“As bracing as a splash of cold water, Leadership BS is at once a scathing indictment of the ‘leadership industry’ and a roadmap to success. Pfeffer dismantles the jargon-filled aphorisms of conventional leadership, replacing them with fact-based prescriptions for how to succeed.” (—Laszlo Bock, SVP of People Operations, Google and author of New York Times bestseller, Work Rules!)
“A provocative case that most leadership advice is baloney and the entire industry is broken. Pfeffer convincingly argues that we consistently give the wrong people power-and even when we get it right, authenticity is a recipe for disaster.” (—Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take)
“In this must-read book, Pfeffer exposes the gap between what we’re told we should do to be leaders and what successful leaders actually do to climb the career ladder. Pfeffer’s take-no-prisoners approach to management research and practice always reveals insightful and shocking results.” (—Keith Ferrazzi, author of ,New York Times bestsellers Never Eat Lunch Alone and Who's Got Your Back?)
“I wish I had read Leadership BS years go. It’s not only honest but helpful, putting words to the disconnect I’ve seen between what works and what we’re all “supposed to be” doing. This inconsistency has so much to say about the current state of professional women’s progress.” (—Gina Bianchini, CEO, Mighty Bell and co-founder, Lean In)
“Leadership BS goes directly to the soul of leadership practices, exposing both the rewards and penalties of contemporary notions. You’ll be challenged to look at qualities such as narcissism, vulnerability, immodesty and ego and consider why these too are important traits of effective leaders.” (—Curt Coffman, co-author of First, Break all the Rules)
“A fascinating inquiry into why the “leadership industry” has failed to develop better leaders. Pfeffer turns conventional wisdom about leadership upside down, and challenges us to rethink why and how leaders behave. It’s an indispensable book for every leader, executive coach, and others who seek to help leaders.” (—Morten T. Hansen, professor, University of California, Berkeley, co-author, Great by Choice)
“Pfeffer offers no nostrums, no feel-good solutions; instead, he offers unvarnished insights and dry-eyed suggestions. Anyone who is seriously interested in leadership should read this book.” (—Stephen Kosslyn, founding dean, the Minerva Schools of Arts and Sciences at the Keck Graduate Institute)
“Jeff Pfeffer has done it again. He forces us to confront uncomfortable questions about ourselves and our cultures. This book reminds us of the dangers of pursuing comforting messages instead of practical truths.” (—Kent Thiry, CEO, Davita Healthcare Partners)
“Pfeffer persuasively attacks the simplistic generalities that masquerade as leadership advice. Offering examples of when such advice can hurt leaders. Turning some of our assumptions concerning authenticity, trust, and humility on their head. Essential reading for anyone who would rather rely on scientific evidence than merely on cool stories.” (—Sim B Sitkin, Duke University, Faculty Director, Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics)
“Challenges conventional thinking and traditional bromides, underscoring the importance of being evidence-based if you want to make an impact in developing leadership.” (—Barry Z. Posner, PhD, Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership, Santa Clara University, co-author, The Leadership Challenge)
“[Power] will help you get comfortable with challenging assumptions and lingering on the pause....[Pfeffer] draws on a wealth of social-science and psychology research.” (Inc magazine)
“This is an entertaining and inspiring read for anyone looking to shake things up at work.” (Publishers Weekly)
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has authored or coauthored fourteen books and is a highly sought-after expert on the subject of power and leadership. He is widely considered one of the leading management experts in the world. Pfeffer has been a visiting professor at London Business School, Harvard Business School, Singapore Management University, and IESE. He has served on the boards of several human capital software companies as well as on a variety of public and nonprofit boards. He lives in Hillsborough, California.
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This book is a thorough indictment of the "Leadership Industry" which has for decades been paid to tell inspiring stories of how sweetness and good deeds make better leaders--despite the obvious fact that many leaders climb to the top over the bodies of those who get taken advantage of. In that sense, the main title is spot on: it calls "BS" on Leadership Industry fantasies. However, the subtitle is almost completely misleading--this book will not help fix workplaces, or more than a few careers. Mr Pfeffer spends 80% of the book documenting that selfish, backstabbing, dishonest behaviors pay handsomely in the modern Western business world, and his advice at the end boils down to "do as the winners do, or suffer as their employees do."
I have to give The author credit for his truthfulness, and for including extensive references for his facts. It is probably difficult to argue with him even if you haven't, as I have, spent decades in big organizations watching the self-serving tactics of those who rise to power. But having read so many pages describing the situation, I expected a lot more at the end, definitely more than what amounts to accepting the situation at it is, which is all he has to offer. This was like reading a murder mystery, but having the detective conclude the crime cannot be solved. I feel the author just ran out of steam and stopped typing. He describes a trend over several decades toward greater employee dissatisfaction, quicker employee turnover, and ever shorter--yet ever more lucrative--executive tenures. He presents this in the tone of a problem, something to be solved. But he doesn't have a solution, nor has he been brave enough to say where this trend is taking us. Having chickened out on prognostication, he thus neatly avoids the implication that something could or should be done to change the trend.
An outstanding read which thoroughly blows up the entire leadership industry. If you are not already aware that everything you learn in that leadership training they send you to every year is a lot of feel-good with no basis in reality, then you must read this book. If the references to the research backing Pfeffer's claims don't convince you, the countless examples based on your heroes will. Fortunately closes with recommendations on what we can all do to help correct the current state of affairs.
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