Donald Clark reports on his spat with Tom Peters that erupted after he posted a thousand words on Why these best selling books on 'Leadership' got it disastrously wrong featuring Peters in a leading role. "BusinessWeek claimed he had 'faked' the data. Chapman even wrote a book called In Search of Stupidity, showing that his list of 'excellent' companies were actually poor to indifferent." Though, as Clark notes, at least they tried to use data; many business books are filled with nothing but cherry-picked anecdotes. More to the point, though, " We have fetishised 'Leadership'. You're a leader, I'm a leader, we're all leaders now - rendering the very meaning of the word useless." I think Clark is right, I think Peters helped start this trend, and I think the concept of 'leadership' has become empty and meaningless.
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