Personality and the Fate of Organizations
Hogan is the author of the Hogan Personality Inventory, one of the few personality assessments written and validated for the workplace. He comes down firmly on the side of personality as a key factor in the outcome of an individual’s leadership. Always an entertaining writer and speaker, Hogan outlines how a leader’s personality frequently has a clear and direct impact upon an organisation’s success or failure. By drawing upon examples from recent business news as well as history, he illustrates his arguments well.
You will not find any beating around the bush with Hogan. Instead, you get a no-holds-barred statement on such important lessons as how one bad apple really can spoil the bunch (personality and teams), who you are is how you lead (personality and leadership), why one jerk at the top can cause misery and losses for many (dark side of leadership), how self-actualisation theory is Marxism-lite for Dummies (human nature), and how the individual search for power is the primary force animating all human activity (the secret life of organisations).
Hogan is a well-known personality theorist. As might be expected, the book is scientifically grounded. It is written in an engaging and conversational tone that would be accessible to the layperson, but is also sufficiently unique in its tone and approach to be of interest to professionals as well.
