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Sunday Book Review: March 31, 2024 Top Business Books for March Edition
In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, we look at the best new books on business from March 2024, as reported in the FT.
3 leadership red flags Elizabeth Holmes should have raised—and how you can spot them yourself
By Barbara Kellerman8 minute Read Both founders and CEOs have been known to go down in flames. But in the first decades of the 21st century arguably no downfall was as spectacular as that of Elizabeth Holmes. Her story is so singular—her persona so captivating, her rise to fame so striking, and her subsequent descent so precipitous—that she is the monarch of leaders who fell from grace. Holmes stood out from the get-go.
Chief | How to Spot a Bad Leader From the Beginning — And What to Do Next
We’ve all worked for bosses who could have been better — in some cases much better — but inexplicably they remain in charge. Barbara Kellerman has been studying that phenomenon for much of her career. A Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, Kellerman has written several books on bad leadership, exploring why it matters, how it’s changed in the digital age and what we can do when we don’t trust the people in charge of our companies or communities.
Putin and Trump – from bad to worse
In February 2024, Russia’s military finally captured Avdiivka, one of Ukraine’s most heavily fortified cities. Russian President Vladimir Putin had coveted Avdiivka since he launched his attack on Ukraine two years ago, and if it required 47,000 Russian soldiers to be killed or injured, so be it. Alexei Navalny’s death in a Siberian jail was equally unsurprising.
Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers
. Mar. 2024. 240p. ISBN 9780197759271. $29.99. BUS COPY ISBN Prolific leadership writer Kellerman ( The Enablers) offers a fresh perspective on bad leadership and bad followership in business and politics, how bad leadership invariably gets worse and worse, and how these phenomena now inextricably link democracy with a capitalistic economy.
Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers
Leadership from Bad to Worse is altogether different from the countless other books on leadership. First, its focus is on bad leadership. Second, its focus is equally on bad followership. Third, it breaks the process of going from bad leadership/followership to worse into four phases, each more ominous and dangerous than the one that preceded it. Fourth, the book includes four cases—two in political leadership, two in business leadership—that detail the preceding point.
Reasons why followers are just as important as leaders
By Barbara Kellerman and Tomas Chamorro Premuzik 5 minute Read We both spend our lives researching, teaching, and writing about leadership and agree with the conventional wisdom that leaders are important. Good leaders and bad leaders and the overwhelming importance of each have become a fixation, an obsession even.
High Impact Leaders 2020
Coauthored with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic The list below is not the usual one — a compendium of the best, or worst, leaders of 2020. Instead, it identifies leaders who had an especially high impact. An impact that was so strong it will endure for years, even generations to come. In some cases, their impact was obviously good, in other cases obviously bad. In every case they had a moment that will leave an imprint. 1. Jose Andres He is still best known as a celebrity chef.
Leaders Who Lust
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked: 1. Power: the ceaseless craving to control. 2. Money: the limitless desire to accrue great wealth. 3. Sex: the constant hunt for sexual gratification. 4. Success: the unstoppable need to achieve. 5.
Professionalizing leadership - development
Learning to lead – like learning to practice any profession – should consist of a certain sequence in a certain order. Like doctors and lawyers, and for that matter like preachers and teachers and truck drivers and hairdressers, leaders should first be educated, then trained, and then developed. Previously we have addressed leadership education and training. What finally is meant by leadership development? How are leaders developed – as opposed to educated or trained?
Professionalizing leadership – training | OUPblog
Leadership is taught as casually and carelessly as ubiquitously. With few exceptions, the leadership industry sends the mistaken, misguided, and misleading message that leadership can be learned quickly and easily in, say, a course or a workshop; in a year or even a term; in an executive program or a couple of coaching sessions.
Professionalizing leadership -- education
In the last forty years the leadership industry has burgeoned beyond anyone’s early imaginings. Learning to lead has become a commonplace, in each of the different sectors; in every type of institution and organization; and in higher education, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. But if teaching how to lead has become ubiquitous, learning how to lead remains mysterious. Leadership has no body of knowledge, core curriculum, or skill set considered essential.
What Does Trump's Golfing Reveal about His Personality?
Donald Trump is almost always seen interacting with others, online and off. He seems to love the limelight, and his Twitter activity alone suggests he’s prone to spontaneity. So it comes as no surprise that the consensus among psychologists is that Trump is extroverted. The psychologist Dan P. McAdams, writing in the Atlantic, says Trump exhibits “sky-high extroversion.” Trump’s use of his downtime also seems to reflect this tendency.
Trump’s Groping - Like Other Sexual Harassment - About Power, Not Sex
The hypothetical of the moment goes as follows: what if Hillary Clinton were the candidate grabbing opposite-sex colleagues without their consent? What if men, rather than women, were being objectified and drooled over during the presidential election? The same question has been posed (at least) twice in the past few days.
Business books of the decade
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Why Should Anyone Be Led by You
By Amy Wallace, Charles Duhigg, Stephen Green Verified, Tim Sullivan, Margaret Heffernan, Gareth Jones, Moisés Naím, Hamish McRae Verified, Gary Hamel, Anita Raghavan, Adam Grant Verified, Rita Gunther McGrath, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ed Catmull, Sheryl Sandberg, Ray Fisman, Barbara Kellerman, Richard Rumelt, Sheena Iyengar, Walter Kiechel, Rob Goffee, Jim Collins, Clay Shirky, Joseph Nye, Philip Delves Broughton, Phil Rosenzweig, Charles Handy, Constantinos Markides, Paul Geroski, Sumantra Ghoshal, Yoshi Sheffi
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The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
By Iain Martin, James B. Stewart Verified, Ben Horowitz, Amy Wallace, Alan Blinder Verified, Stephen Dubner Verified, James Kynge, Dick Martin Verified, Ruchir Sharma, Brad Stone Verified, Julia Angwin, Andrew Keen, Andrew Ross Sorkin Verified, David Wessel, Daniel Schulman Verified, Thomas Friedman Verified, Nick Davies, Bo Burlingham, Charles Duhigg, John Cassidy Verified, Russell Gold, Bryce Hoffman, Robert Frank Verified, Justin Fox Verified, Kurt Eichenwald Verified, Daniel J. Gross, Bob Lutz, David D. Kirkpatrick Verified, Neil Irwin Verified, Paul F. Roberts Verified, Stephen Green Verified, Ian Fraser, Tim Sullivan, James Robinson Verified, Michael Lewis, Christina Binkley Verified, Bethany McLean Verified, Melody Petersen Verified, Charles Morris, Joe Nocera Verified, ROBERT SHILLER, Walter Isaacson, Carl Cannon Verified, John Browne, Margaret Heffernan, Satyajit Das, Gareth Jones, Mohamed El-Erian, Moisés Naím, Peter Diamandis, William Cohan Verified, Daniel Yergin, Cass Sunstein, Don Tapscott, Jeff Rubin, Hamish McRae Verified, Steven Kotler, Edward Glaeser, Howard W. French, Charles Calomiris, Thomas Piketty Verified, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matt Ridley, Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, Tom Doctoroff, Gary Hamel, Joshua Ferris, Anita Raghavan, Michael Spence, Kenneth Rogoff, Jeffrey Sachs, Roddy Boyd, Steve Coll Verified, Adam Grant Verified, Rita Gunther McGrath, Alan Greenspan, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ian Bremmer, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Raghuram Rajan, Liaquat Ahamed, Ed Catmull, Stephen Haber, Diane Coyle, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier Verified, Sheryl Sandberg, Joe Studwell, Eldar Shafir, Angus Deaton, Ray Fisman, John Coates, William Silber, Michael Sandel, Daron Acemoglu, Luigi Zingales, Guy Lawson, Philip Coggan, Christopher Meyer, Julie Kirby, Barbara Kellerman, Richard Rumelt, Sylvia Nasar, Tom Bower, Michael Mandelbaum, Sebastian Mallaby Verified, Sheena Iyengar, Patrick Dillon, Fred Goodman, Anthony Williams, Walter Kiechel, Adam Haslett, George Akerlof, Nandan Nilekani, Frank Partnoy, Rob Goffee, Jim Collins, Carmen Reinhart, Tristram Stuart, William Bernstein, Byron Ousey, Tim Bouquet, Misha Glenny, Alice Schroeder, Clay Shirky, Richard Thaler, Bill Emmott, Joseph Nye, Philip Delves Broughton, Philippe Legrain, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Iain Carson, Richard Bookstaber, Antoine van Agtmael, Phil Rosenzweig, Marc Levinson, Charles Fishman, Daniel Nissannoff, Barton Biggs, Charles Handy, Brook Larmer Verified, Barbara Smit, Debora Spar, Constantinos Markides, Paul Geroski, Steven Levitt, John Battelle, Pietra Rivoli, Corinne Maier, Lucian Bebchuk, Jesse Fried, Sumantra Ghoshal, John Bogle, Philip Augar, Yoshi Sheffi, Paul Ormerod, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Lawrence Lessig, TED FISHMAN
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The Abiding Tyranny of the Male Leadership Model - A Manifesto
(Editor’s note: This post is the third in a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future.) I’m sick of hearing how far we’ve come. I’m sick of hearing how much better situated we are now than before. I’m sick of hearing how women are closing the gaps (in health outcomes, educational attainment, and economic participation), how in some cases women are superseding men, and how in the present more than in the past women are progressing to positions of middle and upper management.
What Every Leader Needs to Know About Followers
There is no leader without at least one follower—that’s obvious. Yet the modern leadership industry, now a quarter-century old, is built on the proposition that leaders matter a great deal and followers hardly at all. Good leadership is the stuff of countless courses, workshops, books, and articles. Everyone wants to understand just what makes leaders tick—the charismatic ones, the retiring ones, and even the crooked ones. Good followership, by contrast, is the stuff of nearly nothing.
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