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.
----Keith Ferrazzi, author of, New York Times bestsellers Never Eat
Lunch Alone and Who's Got Your Back?
