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    Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top - And How to Manage Them
    Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top - And How to Manage Them
    Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top - And How to Manage Them
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    Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top - And How to Manage Them

    By David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo

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    If any of the following behaviors sound like you or someone you work with, beware! In Why CEOs Fail, David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo describe the most common characteristics of derailed top executives and how you can avoid them:
    • Arrogance—you think that you're right, and everyone else is wrong.
    • Melodrama—you need to be the center of attention.
    • Volatility—you're subject to mood swings.
    • Excessive Caution—you're afraid to make decisions.
    • Habitual Distrust—you focus on the negatives.
    • Aloofness —you're disengaged and disconnected.
    • Mischievousness—you believe that rules are made to be broken.
    • Eccentricity—you try to be different just for the sake of it.
    • Passive Resistance—what you say is not what you really believe.
    • Perfectionism—you get the little things right and the big things wrong.
    • Eagerness to Please—you try to win the popularity contest.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateJul 7, 2003
    ISBN9780787970642

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      This is a decent enough book, and I do recognize a lot of the behaviours that can derail a CEO. I have seen this in some of the CEOs I have worked with, but they have not been derailed! This book does do us a good service in listing down some of these attributes, but the authors could have gone a bit deeper. While they decried the fact that many CEOs rely on anecdote, the fact is, so did they! Anecdotes and stories are powerful things, and can reveal much more than we believe. The other issue that I have with this book, and this is no fault of the authors, is that it is very American, very Western. An Asian reader should be wary of this fact, as we come from a different cultural context, and the organisations we work in are at a different stage in development, and will follow different paths as well.

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