Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings
(When) Do Leaders Make a Difference?
$31.99
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2026
Summary
From the bestselling author of Guns, Germs and Steel, an exploration of the influence of leaders in politics, business, sport and religion.
We often read history as the biographies of ‘great men’ who shaped the world. But are leaders, whichever field they are in, really that influential? Should CEOs be given large bonuses when a company performs well? Why, when a political leader is assassinated, is their successor as likely to improve as damage a country? When do we know if …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241847244 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241847249 |
| Author: | Jared Diamond |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 1mm x 1mm |
About The Author
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of Time magazine’s best non-fiction books of all time, Collapse, a No. 1 international bestseller, and The World Until Yesterday, among other books. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.
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