Five missteps that have the tendency to make even really smart leaders stumble. Learn them before they tempt you into looking bad.
I cover emotional intelligence and leadership performance.Most businesses are run by highly intelligent people. Yet, when things fall apart it's usually due to these highly intelligent leaders' stupid mistakes. Tragedies happen when
, who are otherwise great, sabotage themselves, day after day, with mistakes that they can’t see but are obvious to everyone else.Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business[/entity], spent six years searching for an answer. He and his colleagues studied 51 of the business world’s most notorious failures, interviewing CEOs and people from all levels. He and his team found that the poor decisions these smart leaders made were sometimes intentional and sometimes accidental, but they always followed a clear pattern of hubris that ensured even the most successful enterprise could be run into the ground.1.
Many intelligent leaders know quite well how smart they are. Their identities become so wrapped up in their intelligence that they believe input from others is unnecessary. They make decisions quickly and refuse to answer questions when there’s a misunderstanding. Although this may fit the TV image of a strong leader, making split-second decisions with imprudence often leads to major mistakes. Your chance of failure is heightened when you don’t care to know what other people think.
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