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Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It) Hardcover – March 12, 2019

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Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men.

In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it so hard for competent people--especially competent women--to advance?

Marshaling decades of rigorous research, Chamorro-Premuzic points out that although men make up a majority of leaders, they underperform when compared with female leaders. In fact, most organizations equate leadership potential with a handful of destructive personality traits, like overconfidence and narcissism. In other words, these traits may help someone get selected for a leadership role, but they backfire once the person has the job.

When competent women--and men who don't fit the stereotype--are unfairly overlooked, we all suffer the consequences. The result is a deeply flawed system that rewards arrogance rather than humility, and loudness rather than wisdom.

There is a better way. With clarity and verve, Chamorro-Premuzic shows us what it really takes to lead and how new systems and processes can help us put the right people in charge.

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March 12, 2019
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5.6 x 8.3 x 0.9 inches
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978-1633696327
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Competence is how good you are at something. Confidence is how good you think you are at something. Competence is an ability; confidence is the belief in that ability.
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"Each of this year's best business books on talent and leadership is distinguished by startlingly specific diagnoses and descriptions of the roots of our leadership crisis. In the best among them, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor of business psychology at University College London and Columbia University, persuasively argues that today's "epidemic of bad leadership" is caused by a surplus of incompetent men whose flaws perversely enable them to rise to the top." -- strategy+business magazine

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Named one of "14 business books everyone will be reading in 2019" -- Business Insider

Advance Praise for Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It):

Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO, IfWeRanTheWorld--
"The single most important book on leadership of our time. This insightful, innovative, original perspective is an absolute must-read for anyone who wants to identify the best leaders for their business and to be the best leaders they can be themselves--men and women alike. This book is now going to be my go-to gift for everyone I know, in business and in life."

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, bestselling author, Seven Steps to Leading a Gender-Balanced Business--
"This wonderful book illustrates how gender balance is a lever for higher business performance. A delightfully honest manifesto to transform traditional, underperforming, overconfident male standards of leadership into something that actually delivers, inspires, and engages. Brilliant and timely."

Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School--
"As the title--Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?--suggests, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic has written a lively and provocative book. For anyone with an interest in leadership, and in gender differences as they might particularly pertain, the issues he raises and the conclusions he reaches will provide good grist for their collective mill.”

About the Author

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is the Chief Talent Scientist at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, and an associate at Harvard's Entrepreneurial Finance Lab.

Author social media/website info: drtomascp.com, @drtcp

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press (March 12, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1633696324
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1633696327
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 8.3 x 0.9 inches

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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, co-founder of deepersignals.com, and an associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. He is the author of Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and How to Fix It), upon which his TEDx talk was based, and 11 other books. His latest book is I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique. Find him at www.drtomas.com and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeAEFEXvcBg

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Mack

Avoid toxic leaders and promote those who really deliver.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2020

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This is a very well argued book with lots of data to support every point. It discusses how people are drawn to toxic leaders who actually do not deliver results and often are out for themselves rather than the organizations they serve. The author makes recommendations for how to avoid hiring and promoting people who appear to be the next shiny thing, and instead to look for those qualities in people who inspire others to work together to achieve organizational goals. This book is a must-read winner for anyone interested in the leadership field.

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Edwin Dalorzo

Thought-provoking and powerful message

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2020

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This books offers an interesting point of view about how, when it comes to choosing the best leaders, our current standards and natural instincts are deeply flawed. The author did a good deal of research and he offers many interesting examples to explain, in great detail, the consequences of our negligent selections. As a solution, he not only also argues in favor of putting more scientific thinking in our leader's selection process to avoid choosing the worst type of leaders (e.g. narcissists, psychopaths), but also presents interesting arguments in favor of choosing more women as leaders instead, maintaining that the statistics show they typically better than men, less prone than men to certain common leadership vices, and apparently, possess higher levels of natural EQ. One of its main ideas is that for women to be taken into account as leaders they should avoid turning into something they are not, i.e. yet another copy of a flawed male leader, with all their known vices and weaknesses. As such, women should be valued as leaders for what they already have to offer. The book appears to be really well-founded and the author provides dozens of references to other interesting scientific studies, papers, and articles that, allegedly, back up his line of thinking. This is one of those books worth reading simply because it bursts your bubble, it makes you think, it questions the status quo and offers a fresh perspective on a very well known problem. The message in favor of more women leadership is very powerful and I swear I thought the author was a woman until after I had reached the end of the book when I did some additional investigation on its prolific author

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Top research, simple writing, a must read for any board

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2019

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This book is based on solid research (sorry, narcissists, I know you will not like the findings) and provides suggestions that can help organizations improve the quality of leadership. No, the solution in NOT just hiring and promoting more women - it is hiring and promoting competent, humble, teachable, and caring people. A must-read for any board, and all involved in hiring and promoting. Implementing these straightforward solutions will require discipline and commitment, but will result in stronger and better organizations.

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Dale Hayden

Sad but True

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2019

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This is a great book that focuses on the real issue of incompetent leadership in all institutions. Every incompetent leader means a competent leader (male and female) is denied the opportuity to lead a team to success. Business and all institutions need to better understand what makes for a competent leader, how to access leadership, and make decisions that fullfills the responsiblity of an organization, that is, to provide its employees with competent leadership.

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Erica R.

About responsibility, not the typical deflecting in leadership.

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2019

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Dr. Premuzic clearly outlines what is obvious yet overlooked in leadership and organizations. Love that he focuses on what all (men and women) are responsible to and for in creating diverse organizations where the full breadth of expertise and skills can be utilized by BOTH men and women. Kudos to offering a fresh perspective in this conversation.

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Luke

Provocative ideas, but...

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2019

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Admittedly, I saw the title of this book and purchased it out of intrigue and skepticism.

The author makes some good arguments about why some (maybe most) men are able to climb the career ladder. Without spoiling the book, I will say that I liked the emphasis on EQ, AI, and other methods that can be applied to select better leaders.

The problems I had with the book are Chamorro-Premuzic's references to "science" studies and Freudian concepts. You'll see these pop up as you're reading, so be skeptical when the author make certain assertions as being concrete facts. Also, there are some over generalizations throughout.

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Wagner Domingues de Oliveira

Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2020

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He supports the concepts with facts and studies from academics authors.
The promotion process has to be reviewed by companies that are looking for gender diversity, so HR manager could use the concepts presentes on this book.
I’ve improved my knowlodge about leadership and diversity.
An excelent book.

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Mark Hazel

Important points, but . . .

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2020

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Makes valid points that the same personality traits that make people more likely to GET a leadership job also make them less effective at DOING that job. But I dispute one of his central themes - that those negative traits are far more common in men than women. Also makes valid points about what we should look for in potential leaders . He does NOT promote gender based hiring or promotion, but argues that if we hire and promote based on the right qualities, that will naturally mean more women in leadership.

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Aineth TR

Eye opening and disheartening

Reviewed in Mexico on May 14, 2023

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Regardless of many scientific studies supporting the benefits of personality treats attributed to women. Women still face disproportionate criticism while lower stantards are used to measure men. According to the author, standards need to become more strict but for men to prevent the persistance of inept leaders in organizations.

Moeen Shaikh

Top corner broken...

Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2022

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I opened my package and this is what I get...honestly why sell a book with a broken back??

Kerstin Saarm

Boken avsedd som julgåva

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Jeff Wellstead

A book that calls Emporers naked, but gives all the reasons as to why (and how to avoid them)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2020

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Hits the nail on the head in addressing am age old problem that promotes all the wrong and damaging personality traits, whilst the world's institutions flounder in need of powerful, positive, enlightened leaders who can take us forward into our next evolutionary stage of social and organisational reinvention. One of the few books that calls this issue out in a coherent and credible manner for our modern age. Well written, easy to follow, memorable and I will use this as a reference in my work moving forward.

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Abhishek Jain

Nicest book I read

Reviewed in India on November 17, 2020

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Original research and shows the pitfalls for being flamboyant. The old values of humility return. Must read

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