Good People
The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
Most CEOs say the same thing: finding good people is difficult, and a matter of luck rather than skill, as being good on paper doesn't always translate to being good in practice.
In Good People, venture capitalist Anthony Tjan explains the five tensions that make "goodness" so uncommon in business, and features numerous profiles of "good people" who are extraordinary leaders and motivators in their fields, including Dominic Barton, Managing Director of McKinsey & Co and Gary Knell, CEO of National Geographic.
Establishing a new vocabulary for understanding and talking about the meaning of "good," both in business and beyond, Tjan offers practical advice for advancing the only durable competitive advantage for organizations: a set of values for developing oneself and others.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Entrepreneur Tjan (coauthor of Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck) delivers a well-intentioned but flimsy meditation on kindness as the primary goal and tactic of leadership. He stresses that, more than ever, employees are the most important assets of their employers. In an effort to figure out how companies can more actively foster compassionate cultures, Tjan conducted close to 100 interviews with people in leadership positions. Unfortunately, he doesn't turn up any particularly noteworthy insights, but regardless goes on to fill the book with a repetitive discussion of the characteristics of goodness. Character and values matter more than competency, he asserts, and he names compassion, respect, kindness, patience, and connectedness as the linchpins of a successful business. There is space given to the best ways to put kindness into action mentorship, etc. but overall, a lack of direction makes this primer uninspiring.
