A Leader's Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference

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Elias Aboujaoude

A Leader's Destiny

Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference

Elias Aboujaoude

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PublicAffairs,U.S.
30 July 2024

The self, ego, identity, personality; Management: leadership & motivation; Working patterns & practices

Elias Aboujaoude's distinctive exploration of leadership provides unusual insight into understanding who should and should not be striving for leadership positions.

Dr Aboujaoude takes on the culture at large, explaining how our cult-like obsession with leadership gives narcissists an edge and results in leadership failure everywhere we look-and how resisting the imperative to rise at all costs can leave many with an inferiority complex.

His takedown of the ""leadership industrial complex,"" an unholy alliance of gurus, coaches, business school professors, and TED-talkers, from Harvard on down, pokes a very sharp elbow into an industry seemingly united in a modern form of alchemy to create leadership gold-a waste of time, money, and effort, since leadership cannot be taught through books or coaching and cannot be bought.

Rather, Dr Aboujaoude vividly illustrates, leaders emerge from a unique combination of personal, psychological, and situational factors that may not be easily controlled. To a large degree, great leaders are born, or happen, with the help of innate temperament, talent, opportunity, circumstances, and timing.

Frank and unflinching, this refreshing take on a classic subject, with its focus on the art of knowing yourself, provides new insight into whether your psychology is aligned with the requirements of effective and happy leadership. The effect is to empower readers to understand themselves and step up if they have what it takes to lead-or find equally, often superior, ways to achieve fulfilment and leave their mark if they don't.

By: Elias Aboujaoude
Imprint: PublicAffairs,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 523g
ISBN: 9781541703018
ISBN 10: 1541703014
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 30 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elias Aboujaoude, M.D. is a Stanford University professor and psychiatrist at Stanford University Medical School, researcher, internationally recognized internet scholar. He also has an appointment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles (second-ranked hospital in US) where his work focuses on digital and internet-related psychological health, He is the author of Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the e-Personality (a New York Times Editor's Choice). In addition to Stanford and Cedars-Sinai, he has held faculty appointments at UC Berkeley and UCSF, and an Honorary Professorship at the University of York. His research and writings have been widely covered, including by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Harvard Business Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Congressional Quarterly, Wired, TIME, and Newsweek, and on National Public Radio, BBC, CNN, FOX, and CBS.

Reviews for A Leader's Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference

"""[Aboujaoude] delivers a book that anyone considering enrollment in a course with ""leadership"" in the title should investigate. A distinctive, thought-provoking view on leadership in the 21st century.""--Kirkus Reviews"