Your Leadership Reality Check

John R. Bell

Chapter 3 in Do Less Better, 2014, pp 57-86 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Leaders talk focus all the time, but few deliver the outcomes suggested by the objective. What do increased complexity and incoherence say about the state of twenty-firstcentury leadership? On the upside, we see or read about superb acts of leadership. The ones that occupy an indelible place in our minds are characterized by unexpected high-pressure, traumatic conditions and courageous actions taken within a very limited amount of time—a cabbie delivering a passenger’s baby, a mayor calming a city after one of the worst terrorist attacks in the history of mankind, a pilot making the call to land a powerless 65-ton piece of steel on a river in the middle of a major metropolis, a primary school teacher protecting her class from a gun-wielding madman. With the exception of tampered product recalls, oil spills, and factory explosions, these sorts of trials never face the captains of industry.

Keywords: Great Leader; Chief Operate Officer; Fighter Pilot; Virtuous Leadership; Grim Reaper (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137452788_4

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