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THE ORGANIZATIONAL FOOL 117 What makes a fool? To understand what motivates clowns or jesters to want to capture the audience ’ ...

118 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP processes are decided on in secret by a few senior fi gures. So, help is sometimes n ...

THE ORGANIZATIONAL FOOL 119 pieces of satirical writing, Hasek describes the misadventures of his seemingly idiotic hero, making ...

120 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP doubt, and they frequently end up being blamed for the very things they expose. This ...

THE ORGANIZATIONAL FOOL 121 portfolio in the part. With certain skills of dramatization, a less senior manager may occasionally ...

122 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP senior executives — power games were the least of his concern — his counsel was eage ...

THE ORGANIZATIONAL FOOL 123 Since the CEO was not completely satisfi ed with the way executive meetings operated, he asked the c ...

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THE PATHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP PART II ...

INTRODUCTION Someone suggested to me that this section might be titled ‘ When Leaders Go Bad, ’ which is a crude but not wholly ...

INTRODUCTION 127 insulted to think that they might have an unconscious. But we all have blind spots and the non - rational perso ...

128 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP deserved. But I was left with a lasting impression of just how far people are willin ...

INTRODUCTION 129 Mugabe. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, I had written the basis of a book from which Chapter 9 ...

PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP An army of a thousand is easy to fi nd, but, ah, how diffi cult to fi nd a general. — Chinese proverb In ...

PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP 131 these questions. First, however, consider an example that illustrates the kind of irrational behavio ...

132 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP Whether consciously or unconsciously employees expect their organization ’ s leader ...

PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP 133 And I awoke dripping with sweat as if someone had dipped me in the river. (Koser, 1900 , p. 45) The ...

134 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP machinations of his wife may have added to this paranoid notion (Asprey, 1986 ). As ...

PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP 135 Frederick ’ s military tactics exerted a great infl uence on the art of warfare at the time. In shar ...

136 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP legitimize his claims by associating with himself the sacred symbols of the culture. ...