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Dysfunctional and Failed Leadership. Fatal Flaws of Leaders Who Derail. Insensitive to others Aloof and arrogant Betrayal of trust Overly ambitious Over-managing Unable to think strategically Unable to adapt to situations Overly dependent on an advocate or mentor.
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Fatal Flaws of Leaders Who Derail • Insensitive to others • Aloof and arrogant • Betrayal of trust • Overly ambitious • Over-managing • Unable to think strategically • Unable to adapt to situations • Overly dependent on an advocate or mentor
Dysfunctional Leadership • Too much vision • Personal needs made paramount • Building a monument to themselves • Blind drive prevents seeing external environment • Pyrrhic victory • Victory -- but at what cost? • Blind ambition, empire building • Chasing a vision before its time • Failure to reality-test ideas • Blind to the market and what it wants • Manipulative management, impression management • Lack of administrative skills
Neurotic Leaders • Paranoid • Suspicious, untrusting • Downfall – reacting to threats that aren’t there • Compulsive • Perfectionist, detail-obsessed • Downfall – unwillingness to make decisions, focus on details at expense of overall situation • Dramatic • Excessive expression of emotions and feelings, narcissistic, attention-seeker • Downfall – overreaction, surface thinking • Depressive • Low self-esteem, preoccupied with guilt, inadequacy, hopelessness • Downfall – Trouble concentrating, indecisive • Schizoid • Detached, uninvolved • Downfall – unable to empathize with others
When Great Goes Bad • For entrepreneurs, success and failure comes from: • Need for total control • Refusing to hear no • Ignoring the “experts” • Single-minded and stubborn • Charismatic leaders….. • Arrogance and narcissism • Believing their own myth
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