Leadership Myth

THE FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What if charisma could be taught? Most people believe the myth that charisma is an inborn quality – you either have it, or you don’t. In reality, charisma is a skill. One that can be learned, developed and perfected. Drawing on...

The best leaders are born, not made. The best leaders are always in control. The best leaders are those with the highest IQs. But are they really? The thinking surrounding what makes the greatest leaders is increasingly muddled by stereotypes, snake oil promises and pseudo-science. The best leaders rely on fact, not fads. Myths of Leadership blasts away the fluff and confronts false legends head on. Jo Owen uses the most credible research to analyze each myth, using international business case studies, leadership theory and insightful interviews, to uncover the truth.

From one of the world's preeminent political historians, comes a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama. Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most successful and admirable. Within authoritarian regimes, a collective leadership is a lesser evil compared with a personal dictatorship.

From Inc.com's most popular columnist, a counterintuitive--but highly practical--guide to finding and maintaining the motivation to achieve great things. It's comforting to imagine that superstars in their fields were just born better equipped than the rest of us. When a co-worker loses 20...

Douglas Kruger, best-selling author of Is Your Thinking Keeping You Poor? and Poverty Proof, returns with his hardest-hitting book yet. This take-no-prisoners exploration of how money works will challenge you on everything you think you know while arming you with economically sound principles for growing your prosperity. No holds are barred when it comes to discussing how governments keep people poor, and which deeply held belief systems promote poverty.

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2016 by Bill Gates All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership-as well as different ways to fail. We blame our leaders for economic...

Leading an HVAC company can seem like a daunting task, with too few hours in the day, too many petty management issues, and problems HVAC contractors in large businesses don't seem to face. The E-Myth HVAC Contractor offers you a road map to create a business that's self-sufficient, growing, and...

What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What...

يمكنك قراءة هذا الكتاب بأي ترتيب تريده. يمكنك أن تتصفحه على فترات، أو أن تبدأ قراءته من البداية وحتى النهاية، أو أن تبدأ من النهاية ثم تقرأه بعكس الترتيب. يمكنك قراءته كله مرة واحدة، أو أن تقرأ منه فصلًا واحدًا كل يوم قبل أن تبدأ العمل. الهدف من هذا الكتاب هو شحذ الأفكار بشأن طبيعة القيادة بشكل عام، وكيف تستطيع القيادة بصورة أفضل. وإذا جعلك هذا الشحذ للأفكار تضحك أو تلعن الكتاب، فلا بأس بذلك. ولا يدعي الكتاب أن لديه إجابة حاسمة بشأن القيادة، لأنه لا توجد أي إجابة حاسمة فيما يتعلق بالقيادة.

'Game-changing ... Read it!' - Mariana Mazzucato In a world of epic, overlapping crises, Stephanie Kelton is an indispensable source of moral clarity ... the truths that she teaches about money, debt, and deficits give us the tools we desperately need to build a safe future for all. Read it -...

"A groundbreaking exploration of corporate leadership that challenges conventional wisdom." - Hubert Joly, former CEO of Best Buy Being appointed CEO is seen by many as the pinnacle of success in business, but it is actually the first step in a journey of evolving stages requiring ongoing...

Management icon Henry Mintzberg dismantles twenty dangerous business myths in this essential guide for thoughtful leaders. Henry Mintzberg, legendary management thinker and recipient of the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award, has spent decades challenging conventional wisdom about how...

A former Gallup Global Leadership Research and Development leader and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Strengths-Based Leadership demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders through original research and interviews with high-performing global leaders. The...

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Stanley McChrystal, the retired US Army general and bestselling author of Team of Teams, profiles thirteen of history’s great leaders, including Walt Disney, Coco Chanel, and Robert E. Lee, to show that leadership is not what you think it is—and never was...

Is it really true that working longer hours makes you more successful? Do you really need to hide your emotions in order to gain respect as a manager? Does higher pay really always lead to higher performance? The world of management is blighted by fads, fiction and falsehoods. In Myths of Management, Cary Cooper and Stefan Stern take you on an entertaining journey through the most famous myths surrounding the much-written about topic of management. They debunk false assumptions, inject truth into over-simplifications and tackle damaging habits head-on.

Bloomsbury presents The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle by Richard Vinen, read by Charles Armstrong. 'Deeply researched yet highly readable, with fresh and often provocative insights' DAVID REYNOLDS 'A vivid and shrewd reckoning ... setting its assessment in the perspective of today's...

Become a better salesperson by learning to debunk the sales myths and focus your strategy on a proven approach that will drive the results you want. Can succeeding in sales be as simple as hooking up the latest CRM tool or perfecting your social media profiles and waiting for qualified leads to...

لدى مؤلفي هذا الكتاب الكثير من الخبرات في الحياة. فنحن الاثنان نملك معًا حوالي سبعة عقود من الخبرة في الدراسة والتفكير في العمل وكيفية إنجازه. لقد جربنا الصالح والطالح من الرؤساء، وتقلدنا المسئولية أحيانًا أيضًا. لقد مررنا بنفس الخبرات. لهذا السبب نحن نستطيع أن نعلن بثقة، منذ البداية، أنه لا توجد مطلقًا أفكار جديدة في هذا الكتاب.

كتاب خرافات الاستراتيجية هو النتاج النهائي لعشر سنوات من العمل. على عكس العديد من كتب الاستراتيجية الأخرى، فهو لا يعكس آراء أو معتقدات لا أساس لها من الصحة. بدلًا من ذلك، فهو يرتكز على نتائج (أفضل) الأبحاث. لقد تم تأليفه بناءً على أكثر من 150 مقالة وكتابًا أكاديميًا، تم تقليصها من القائمة الأصلية التي يبلغ طولها 10 أضعاف ذلك.

Real-world leadership is very different from all that the media would have us believe. Forget the dashing hero, true leadership is typically understated. It’s the myriad small things that make the big things possible. And we can all do it. In Do Lead, Les McKeown draws on his decades as CEO...