Harvard Business Review
Who does the best job of finding good leaders?
- Assessors: managers, recruiters and trainers. People whose job it is to find and promote talent.
- Leaders: the person themselves. Individuals who are convinced that they have what it takes.
- Followers: the team who have to work for the leader.
The answer is obvious when you ask.
Peters and Haslam show why the way we look for and promote leaders is dead wrong.
This elevation of those who seek to distance themselves from their group may actually be a recipe for failure, not success. It encourages leaders to fall in love with their own image and to place themselves above and apart from followers. And that is the best way to get followers to fall out of love with the leader. Not only will this then undermine the leader’s capacity to lead but, more importantly, it will also stifle followers’ willingness to follow. And that can only ever be a path to organizational mediocrity […]
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