Leadership Failures : Precautionary Tales and Prevention Strategies (Hardcover)

Preface Three Envelopes: An Important Opening Parable Is This Book for You? Essential Elements Prevention and Damage Control Introduction: Our View Why Us? . Book Organization & How to Use . Section 1: Stories Chapter 1: Vignettes About Failures Vignette 1: Well-prepared for the Wrong Role Vignette 2: Counter-cultural Leadership Vignette 3: Well Qualified, But Lazy Vignette 4: Sick Organization Syndrome (SOS) Vignette 5: Large and In Charge Vignette 6: Weak Moral Compass Vignette 7: You Can Stay Too Long Vignette 8: Symbols & Behaviors Communicate More than Words Vignette 9: A Single Source of Truth Needs to be Verified Vignette 10: Temper Tantrums Are for Two-year-olds Vignette 11: Rip off the Bandage Vignette 12: Keep the Personal Away from the Professional Vignette 13: Leader’s Mind, But Not Brain, Is Lost Vignette 14: Family Business or Business of the Family? Vignette 15: Bureaucratic Success, Mission Leadership Failure Vignette 16: Leadership Failure Cascade Vignette 17: Boards Bruise the Business Vignette 18: Don’t Confuse Activity With Productivity Vignette 19: Small Intervention But Huge Impact Vignette 20: The No-bell Prize Chapter 2: Essentials for Success Attribute 1: Honesty/Integrity Attribute 2: Self-Awareness Attribute 3: Emotional Maturity Attribute 4: Communicator Attribute 5: Decisiveness Attribute 6: Intelligence Attribute 7: Resilience Section 2: And Now What? Chapter 3: Planning for Orderly Organizational Succession Chapter 4: Modeling Career Growth as a Part of Succession Chapter 5: Reframing for the Future Chapter 6: The Final Admonition APPENDICES: Tracking Matrix