Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?
What It Takes to Be an Authentic Leader
Harvard Business Press, 2006
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Leadership & Management
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In this summary you will learn
- How to pursue authenticity in leadership
- Why that matters
- How followers affect leaders
Why you should read Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?
Authors Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones provide a welcome balance to the many books advising that leadership is a matter of adopting this or that characteristic or technique. They emphasize the situational nature of leadership, the extent to which it depends on followers in a particular organizational context. They infer some basic principles for authenticity and leadership from what seems to be a solid body of empirical observation and interviews, including generally pointed, well-chosen anecdotes showing good leaders in action. getAbstract recommends this thoughtful book, which offers an insight that few books on leadership dare to voice. The authors unabashedly assert that even great leadership may not lead to good business results. They further state that an excessive emphasis on results is one of the great obstacles standing in the way of authentic, moral leadership.
About the Authors
Rob Goffee is professor of organizational behavior at London Business School, an expert on organizations and the author of 10 books. Gareth Jones is a fellow of the Center for Management Development at LBS and a visiting professor at INSEAD. They also co-authored The Character of a Corporation.
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