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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
240 pages
4h 8m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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About the Author

TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC, PhD, is an international authority on talent management, leadership development, and people analytics. He is the Chief Talent Scientist at ManpowerGroup, cofounder of Metaprofiling and Deeper Signals, and Professor of Business Psychology at both University College London and Columbia University. He has previously held academic positions at New York University and the London School of Economics. He has lectured at Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, London Business School, Johns Hopkins, and IMD in addition to serving as CEO at Hogan Assessment Systems.

Chamorro-Premuzic has published 10 books and over 150 scientific papers, making him one of the most prolific social scientists of his generation. ...

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ISBN: 9781633696334