Credible

The Power of Expert Leaders

Amanda Goodall

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Basic Books
26 September 2023

Social theory; Management: leadership & motivation; Advice on careers & achieving success

Who would be an expert in a world where expertise is under siege? Hard-won know-how and experience seem to count for nothing in the eyes of everyone from high-profile business leaders to populist politicians.

But what evidence do we have that this perception is right?

Amanda Goodall has been asking this question for the last twenty years. Her research has taken her from boardrooms and F1 race tracks to hospitals and higher education. She has proven time and again that, when it comes to top performance, we need people - especially bosses - with the expertise that only comes from a deep understanding of the worlds in which they operate.

That's what makes the people around them feel happier, better appreciated and more productive.

In Credible, Goodall debunks the cult of managerialism (the notion that smart people can run anything) and provides an underappreciated model for career success: go deep into a business, work hard, and know your stuff.

We all want to be led by people we can relate to and trust, people who have the credibility to make us want to follow them. When it comes to credible leadership, expertise really matters.

By: Amanda Goodall
Imprint: Basic Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529365191
ISBN 10: 1529365198
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 26 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amanda Goodall is Professor of Leadership at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London, where she specialises in how leaders and managers influence performance. Dr Goodall has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, the University of Zurich, and Yale University, and she publishes widely in academic journals, practitioner publications and general media. Her first book Socrates in the Boardroom was published by Princeton University Press in 2009. She is a committed environmentalist. You can find out more about Amanda's work at www.amandagoodall.com

Reviews for Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders

Credible, by Amanda Goodall, is engaging and powerful. With many vivid examples from a range of industries and settings, she shows how two essential qualities of our species that we evolved to manifest - leadership and expertise - must actually be reflected within our very modern instantiation of groups within both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations. Groups must have leaders and these leaders must have deep knowledge about the group's core mission. With this simultaneously ancient and modern foundation, groups can thrive and succeed -- Nicholas A. Christakis, author of BLUEPRINT and Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale University