3 signs of a lousy "thought leader"
Hack leadership writers tend to have three characteristics in common, this article notes. Lousy leadership "gurus" are marked by a tendency to overstate the newness of their ideas, a fondness for naming "model" companies and a willingness to market various "tools" that purport to reduce leadership to a few easy steps. "If management could indeed be reduced to a few simple principles, then we would have no need for management thinkers," the author writes.
Economist, The | 10/22
This story published in SmartBrief on Leadership on 10/28/2009
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