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Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
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Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 8m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER 6

What Good Leaders Look Like

If you were a barista in the cafés of Edinburgh in the 1990s, you might have gotten to know a thirty-something single mom named Joanne. She would come into your café, order a cup of coffee, and then sit for a couple of hours and write, sometimes bringing her sleeping baby daughter with her. Perhaps you would ask how the writing was going, and she would tell you that yet another publisher had turned her down.

Talent is notoriously hard to spot. If it weren’t, twelve publishers would not have passed on Joanne’s books, which have now sold more than four hundred million copies worldwide. Perhaps you know her better as J. K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series.

There is no questioning her talents; seven ...

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ISBN: 9781633696334