Description
Book SynopsisIn Why Leaders Fail and What it Teaches Us About Leadership Willem Fourie helps us make sense of leaders' failures and why our expectation of leadership infallibility is misguided
Whereas some leadership failures can be rectified, others lead to the failure of teams, organisations or institutions. Using cutting-edge research and reflective practices, Fourie explores leaders' failure at these personal, interpersonal, group, organisational levels and beyond. He explores five factors that cause leaders to fail:
- Ignorance of personal weaknesses
- Overconfidence in their influence over others
- Destructive bias
- Bad fit in their organisation
- Misjudged risk
The author shows that our heroic bias the expectation that leaders should be exceptional, charismatic individuals with a higher level of agency than other people in many contexts increases the chances of leaders failing. The bo
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Heroes and Failure
Chapter 3: Leaders as Individuals: Heroic Personality Traits and Failure
Chapter 4: Leaders and Followers: Monopolised Influence and Failure
Chapter 5: Leaders and Groups: Destructive Bias and Failure
Chapter 6: Leaders and the Organisation: Defective Culture and Failure
Chapter 7: Leaders and their Environment: Misjudged Risk and Failure
Chapter 8: Lessons for Post-Heroic Leaders (and Followers)
