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  1. Poor Leadership Decision: A Case Study

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  2. (PDF) EXAMINING AND COMPARING GOOD AND BAD LEADERS BASED ON KEY

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  3. Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters

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  4. Lessons in Bad Leadership

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  5. Examples of Bad Leadership

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  1. Marissa Mayer: A Case Study In Poor Leadership

    Both Mayer and the board are culpable of poor leadership. Much of my personal practice deals with CEO succession, and the misadventures of Mayer represents the classic case of picking the wrong ...

  2. Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

    Summary. In this fictional case, the CEO of a sports apparel manufacturer is faced with an ongoing conflict between two of his top executives. Specifically, the head of sales and the CFO are at ...

  3. The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader

    Scott Gregory. March 30, 2018. Jakub Domerecki/EyeEm/Getty Images. Summary. The popular media is full of examples of bad leaders in government, academia, and business. But the most common kind of ...

  4. Stop Making Excuses for Toxic Bosses

    This behavior takes many forms: insulting direct reports in public, invading their privacy, or gossiping about them behind their backs. Toxic actions such as these contribute to not only employee ...

  5. Personal reflections on destructive leadership: A case study

    Most current literature focuses on studying good or effective leadership; however, lessons from leadership failures can be just as valuable as learning from leadership successes. Therefore, this article reviews a case study of leadership failure, provides a theory-based solution to learn from destructive leadership, and suggests recommendations ...

  6. Bad Leadership Up Close and Personal: A Case Study

    Bad Leadership Up Close and Personal: A Case Study. If there is one thing that is true in my life it is this: The Man and I are exact opposites in every way. I like steak; he likes ground beef. I order my meat so rare the kitchen can just drag it through a warm oven; he orders it so well-done they should toss it in an open fire until it's black.

  7. Ineffective Leadership And The Devastating Individual And ...

    Ironically, studies show that teams with leaders who inspire often achieve and exceed financial results. Further, there's a cascading effect of bad and good leadership (particularly when leaders ...

  8. Defeating the Toxic Boss: The Nature of Toxic Leadership and the Role

    Drawing on the findings from a multiple case study, we build a process model of toxic leadership and empirically illustrate the toxic leadership process and its outcomes. ... Schilling J. (2013). How bad are the effects of bad leaders? A meta-analysis of destructive leadership and its outcomes. Leadership Quarterly, 24, 138-158. Crossref. Web ...

  9. Marissa Mayer: A Case of Bad Leadership

    Yahoo's CEO churn compounded to its problems. To steer the company out of rough waters, Yahoo tapped in Google's former executive Marissa Mayer (Mayer) as its CEO in 2012. In her first year, Mayer reshaped Yahoo's working culture trying to replicate some of Google's. In a bid to boost employee morale, she offered perks like free food ...

  10. 15 Bad Leadership Behaviors (And How To Fix Them)

    1. Overvaluing Their Expertise. A common bad habit leaders have is overvaluing their expertise. It's an easy trap to fall into because they've been developing their expertise over a career ...

  11. Recognizing and Managing a Toxic Leader: A Case Study

    Toxic leadership is present across industries around the world, including healthcare. There is evidence that between 20% and 30% of leaders globally are described as toxic.(3) In a study of 400 leaders, 39% of whom worked in the healthcare setting, almost 95% reported encountering toxic characteristics in someone at work.(7)

  12. PDF Kellerman, Barbara (2004). Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens

    leadership while refusing to study bad leadership will result in us, leadership industry, not truly being subject matter experts on leadership because we have ignored to study leadership in all of its whole. Her proposition is, as she puts it, akin to a medical school teaching only health (good leadership) but ignoring disease (bad leadership).

  13. Why Companies Stumble: The Role of Bad Leadership

    One reason why bad leadership is relatively frequent is that senior team members are human beings and all human beings are prone to distortions to their decision-making (Finkelstein et al. 2008 ). At many of the stumblers, members of the senior team suffered from biases and particularly a bias to growth and overconfidence.

  14. How to Spot an Incompetent Leader

    Summary. If we want less incompetent men in leadership roles, those responsible for judging candidates need to improve their ability to distinguish between confidence and competence. The good news ...

  15. PDF Leadership Theories and Case Studies

    organization. This type of "bad" leadership has many elements to it. In the field of epidemiology, the word "determinants" is used to describe those elements that are causal factors in determining an outcome or 1 Barbara Kellerman, Bad Leadership, (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014). 2 Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, (Portfolio, 2016).

  16. Leadership Articles, Research, & Case Studies

    Executives who confront new challenges with old formulas often fail. The best leaders tailor their approach, recalibrating their "action orientation" to address the problem at hand, says Ryan Raffaelli. He details three action orientations and how leaders can harness them. New research on business leadership from Harvard Business School faculty ...

  17. Is "Bad Leadership" a Problem Worth Addressing?

    The case studies from our research suggest that leaders fail to perform when their impressive leadership qualities are no longer appropriate to the current challenges facing them and their organizations. For example, Chuck Prince was an experienced lawyer who was well positioned to deal with a number of regulatory and legal problems facing ...

  18. Good Leader vs. Bad Leader: 6 Key Leadership Scenarios

    Leaders told us they loved our good vs. bad storytelling approach, so we're bringing it back to highlight the differences in a good leader vs. bad leader again today. Here's the leadership scenarios we're covering: 1) Handling an employee's idea. 2) Taking questions from your team. 3) Managing the unknown.

  19. Time's Up for Toxic Workplaces

    HBR Learning's online leadership training helps you hone your skills with courses like Business Plan Development. Earn badges to share on LinkedIn and your resume. Access more than 40 courses ...

  20. Examining and Comparing Good and Bad Leaders Based on Key Leadership

    PDF | On Jan 1, 2021, Sergey Ivanov and others published EXAMINING AND COMPARING GOOD AND BAD LEADERS BASED ON KEY LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS: A LEADERSHIP CASE STUDY | Find, read and cite all the ...

  21. Examining and Comparing Good and Bad Leaders Based on Key Leadership

    The authors test some of these principles in the leadership case study based on one of the authors' work experiences in a large military organization in the United States. As part of the effort, the authors apply and evaluate some of the aspects of the new leadership theory to understand if the study can validate and support a further ...

  22. Government Cracks Down on SOEs but Runs Risks

    Executive Summary: The Supreme People's Court and Central Government Regulators have put State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) on notice for fraudulent accounting practices, releasing five case studies to name and shame bad actors. The Central government made clear SOE fraud carries both economic risk and reputational risk to government legitimacy, as SOEs are instrumental to the implementation of ...

  23. The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

    The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo. The post-scandal scrutiny of Wells Fargo's culture has so far focused on the high-pressure sales environment that drove employees to create as many as ...

  24. HealthCare.gov: Case Study of CMS Management of the Federal Marketplace

    HealthCare.gov: Case Study of CMS Management of the Federal Marketplace Issued on 02/22/2016 | Posted on 02/22/2016 | Report number: OEI-06-14-00350 Report Materials Full Report (PDF, 3.2 MB) WHY WE DID THIS STUDY As required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), HealthCare.gov is the Federal website that facilitates purchase of private health ...

  25. Crisis Leadership Lessons from Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton

    Transcript. April 17, 2024. In early 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship became trapped in ice, north of Antarctica. For almost two years, he and his crew braved those frozen expanses ...