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Failure of Leadership

verfasst von : Salvatore Moccia

Erschienen in: Strategies in Failure Management

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The mystery of what leaders can and ought to do in order to spark the best performance from their people is age-old. In recent years, that mystery has spawned an entire cottage industry: literally thousands of “leadership experts” have made careers of testing and coaching, all in pursuit of creating businesspeople who can turn bold objectives into reality. Still, effective leadership eludes many people and organizations. Strong leaders and strong leadership teams are essential to sustaining today’s high complex and globalized business. On the other side, ineffective leaders represent the way to organizational disasters. What are the elements that could help us to recognise the incipient of a leadership failure? Let’s discover it together.

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Fußnoten
1
See also Badke-Schaub and Hofinger (2018).
 
2
See also Kauffeld and Massenberg (2018).
 
3
Taken from MacDonald (2015).
 
4
As an example see Coleman-Lochner (2016).
 
5
See also Bedenk and Mieg (2018).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Failure of Leadership
verfasst von
Salvatore Moccia
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72757-8_6

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