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

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

Book by Jeffrey Pfeffer

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.

Contents

Preface
Why Inspiration and Fables Cause Problems and Fix Nothing
Why Leaders Arent
Should Leaders Tell the Truthand Do They?
Why Leaders Eat First

You Can Handle the Truth
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright

踢爆「領導力」迷思　這些祕訣不會讓你變領導人

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作者：吳怡靜 2016-02-02 天下雜誌591期


這是一本自家人出來「踢館」的企管新書。英文書名「領導都是廢話」（Leadership BS）直接了當點出，今天的領導力產業非常失敗，因為大家都搞錯了重點。


作者菲佛是史丹佛大學商學院組織行為學教授，自己就在教領導。但他認為，製造出大量書籍、講座、研討會和企業培訓課程的領導力產業，經常為人提供如何成功的領導力祕訣，問題是，這些祕訣往往與現實脫節──很多人在真實世界中獲得的成功，都來自於與那些「領導力祕訣」截然相反的作為。

川普就是一例。許多人都不喜歡這位共和黨總統參選人自吹自擂、信口開河的性格，但菲佛卻指出，這些正是許多成功領袖人物的特質，因為大量研究都顯示，自戀、自信和自我展示的性格，更容易使人獲得領導角色。

大多數關於領導力的演講和書籍，描述的都是「我們希望領導者具有的品質」：成功領導人必須是道德模範，擁有謙遜、誠實等特質。

事實上，偉大領導人往往是很複雜的，他們也會受到自我主義驅動。以謙虛為例，成功的領導人幾乎都是自我吹噓者；而誠實呢，創業家當初如果沒有高估自己的成功機率，大概都無法做起事業吧。

踢爆種種迷思後，菲佛建議，想提升領導力的品質，還是要回歸執行面，努力把制度做好：建立獎勵機制，強化企業文化，改善董事會素質等。這些才是領導力的真功夫。（吳怡靜）

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