num_pages: 260
description: 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 its 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.
language: English
title: Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
publisher: Harper Business