Leaders everywhere are in disrepute. Hardly a day goes by without news of corporate ethical violations, financial fudging and CEO failures. Yet, compensation packages and bonuses continue unabated, even when disgraced leaders are sent packing. (photo courtesy freedigitalphotos.net)
Harvard Business School Professor Barbara Kellerman criticizes the leadership-development industry in her new book, The End of Leadership (HarperBusiness, April 2012). She asserts:
- Leaders at every level, across all industries, are failing the people who depend on them.
- Leadership programs have done an inadequate job of producing effective and ethical leaders.
- We don’t really know how to grow good leaders, and we know even less about how to stop or slow the bad ones.
- Today’s business environment is rapidly changing in ways leaders are unable or unwilling to grasp.
- Followers are disappointed and disillusioned, even though they are more empowered, emboldened and entitled than ever before.
This article examines the evidence of ineffective and unethical leaders, the loss of leadership power and trust, and what leaders and followers can do about it.
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- Leadership’s Devolution
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- Income: The Great Divide
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