1st Edition
Why Leaders Fail and What It Teaches Us About Leadership
By Willem Fourie
Copyright 2023
182 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In 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... Read more
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)
Biography
Willem Fourie is Associate Professor at the Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute in the Department of Business Management at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
