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A Leader's Destiny
Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference
Elias Aboujaoude(0)
About
A psychiatrist puts leadership "on the couch" to explore the crucial, often ignored psychological and personal character foundations of leadership.
Elias Aboujaoude explores how simplistic and hollow our concept of leadership has become, how divorced from the actual qualities and circumstances that make a truly great leader. The result: Everywhere we look, from corporate boardrooms to elected officials, we see failures of leadership.
Dr. Aboujaoude begins with a takedown of the foibles of so-called leadership experts he dubs the "leadership industrial complex." an unholy alliance of gurus, coaches, business professors, TED-talkers seemingly united in a modern form of alchemy to create leadership gold.
Rather, he vividly illustrates, leaders emerge from a combination of personal, psychological, and situational factors that vary from person to person. Personality, he shows, is sticky, not malleable, viciously resisting attempts at manipulating it into something it is not. To a large degree, great leaders are born, or happen, with the help of innate temperament, talent, opportunity, timing, and circumstance, in ways that we do not fully understand.
How Leaders Happen is a refreshing take on a classic subject " Frank and unflinching, it empowers readers to break free from the simplistic and hollow cult of leadership. Step up to lead if you are willing and capable, Dr. Aboujaoude urges, but if you decide otherwise, there are equally, often superior ways to make your contribution in the world."
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.
Elias Aboujaoude explores how simplistic and hollow our concept of leadership has become, how divorced from the actual qualities and circumstances that make a truly great leader. The result: Everywhere we look, from corporate boardrooms to elected officials, we see failures of leadership.
Dr. Aboujaoude begins with a takedown of the foibles of so-called leadership experts he dubs the "leadership industrial complex." an unholy alliance of gurus, coaches, business professors, TED-talkers seemingly united in a modern form of alchemy to create leadership gold.
Rather, he vividly illustrates, leaders emerge from a combination of personal, psychological, and situational factors that vary from person to person. Personality, he shows, is sticky, not malleable, viciously resisting attempts at manipulating it into something it is not. To a large degree, great leaders are born, or happen, with the help of innate temperament, talent, opportunity, timing, and circumstance, in ways that we do not fully understand.
How Leaders Happen is a refreshing take on a classic subject " Frank and unflinching, it empowers readers to break free from the simplistic and hollow cult of leadership. Step up to lead if you are willing and capable, Dr. Aboujaoude urges, but if you decide otherwise, there are equally, often superior ways to make your contribution in the world."
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.