Research Review: Leadership Traits, Behaviors, and Styles

Leadership Traits, Behaviors, and Styles
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Summary
The Business Source article summarizes "Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top – and How to Manage Them," by Dotlich and Cair. The summary elaborates 11 behaviors the authors believe CEOs and those aspiring to avoid. The article recounts the story of Jeff Skilling, the former CEO of Enron Corporation, who at some point was the focus of the media when he was at the pinnacle of success. However, the table turned as Enron was caught up in a scandal that tarnished the CEO's name. The article argues that Dotlich and Cair's "Why CEOs Fail" addresses the fundamental question of why CEOs move from grace to grass, often running their reputation and bringing down the very same entities that made them famous. The article demonstrates that leaders are vulnerable to "derailers" which include a set of behaviors that cause them to fail. The article indicates that the authors provide insightful explanations and explanations regarding these derailers so that individuals can identify them and address them before they become disastrous. In essence, recognizing the derailers in advance is critical because it enables people to spot failure before it strikes and take corrective measures. The article goes ahead to summarize the 11 derailers, which include: Arrogance, melodrama, volatility, excessive caution, habitual, distrust aloofness, mischievousness, eccentricity, perfectionism, and eagerness to please.
Analysis of premises
In "Why CEOs Fail," Dotlich and Cair present the 11 derailers as a warning to individuals in CEO positions or aspiring to get there. The authors detail to highlight the derailers while providing concrete examples to enable the reader to understand them. The authors do not stop there since they demonstrate why CEOs succeed. In this regard, the authors demonstrate that it is critical to analyze the stressors triggering the derailers. Drechsler & Allen (2009), in "Why Senior Military Leaders Fail and What we can Learn From Their Mistakes" demonstrate that military leaders fail when their vision contradicts that of their civilian boss. As much as the civilian bosses do not have the technical ability to execute military operations, military leaders are subject to failure if they ignore them. In "Why smart leaders fail," Chan also brings the essence of situational judgment effectiveness (SJE) in leadership. Leaders with SJE attend to important cues in a particular practical situation. The author encourages leaders to remain vigilant in making sense of what a probl...