Why Leaders Fail and What It Teaches Us About Leadership by W... - 9781032379869

Why Leaders Fail and What It Teaches Us About LeadershipAuthor(s): Willem Fourie\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032379869, 978-1032379869\nSynopsis\nIn 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 \n\nWhereas 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: \n\nIgnorance of personal weaknesses \n\nOverconfidence in their influence over others \n\nDestructive bias \n\nBad fit in their organisation\nMisjudged risk\n\nThe author shows that our heroic bias the expectation that leaders should be exceptional, charism.