The colossal business failures of the past few years underscore the fact that the conduct of a company’s leadership team is directly correlated with the organization’s long term performance. Once venerable institutions such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Royal Bank of Scotland paid the ultimate price for the behaviors of their leadership teams. Lessons from Team Fumbles by Susan Lucia Annunzio, Chief Executive Magazine, November/December 2009
Organizations come up short and fail on numerous fronts. However this article by Susan Lucia Annunzio delves into one of the most serious leadership traps a leader can fall into - Silence.
* When a leader kills the messenger - the result is silence.
* When a leader doesn’t allow or encourage a difference of opinion - the outcome is silence.
* When a leader doesn’t encourage feedback - silence will ensue.
* When a leader embraces silence - silent problems will germinate, grow and eventually destroy.
The Number 1 reason companies are being destroyed today isn’t for a lack of talent. A lack of money. A lack of passion. The Number 1 reason is that companies and their leaders are enabling silent problems to germinate and grow.
It’s that simple…
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