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Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
It's refreshing to know this book exists and I'll certainly look it up but I have zero hope for so called corporate culture because it's lemmings all the way down and lead follow or get out of the way is blocked by some callous know it all opening their yawning pie hole to dish out googlisms
I've worked at all sorts of companies but it's actually been the same company over and over it's the broken top down hierarchy mixed with control dramas and disempowerment where initiative is punishable and the only way to get ahead is to strike a deal with some kind of clique at the expense of the client It's refreshing to know this book exists and I'll certainly look it up but I have zero hope for so called corpora…
Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
I gave “Leaders eat last” a try, but found it unreadable. It starts with SEALs in Afghanistan, because of course it does, and then the author loosely strings together a bunch of unconvincing anecdotes to support his core idea. The worst part is his constant reference to various hormones and fight or flight responses in a superficial way that would make even TEDx feel ashamed. Edit: there is absolutely no doubt in my…
Ultimately I just couldn't finish the book because of the constant unrelated anecdotes.
Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
I've read and enjoyed a bit by Edwards Deming recently, specifically Out of the Crisis and The New Economics .
When he finally gets to special causes vs. common causes, control charts etc. the book gets quite good.
I had my hopes up, but this is about Team Culture (not Culture)
Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
Any business leadership book is likely to really be a management book.
I've worked at all sorts of companies but it's actually been the same company over and over it's the broken top down hierarchy mixed with control dramas and disempowerment where initiative is punishable and the only way to get ahead is to strike a deal with some kind of clique at the expense of the client It's refreshing to know this book exists and I'll certainly look it up but I have zero hope for so called corpora…
Ugh, it makes me sick how true this is, and how much shit I take for refusing to go along with it.