The first discipline of the CEO

Author: David L. Dottles
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Breaking into corporate senior management, what is worth paying attention to? Strategy? Decision-making? Communication? Technology? People? They are all important, but without a discipline, everything is just talk. Based on years of experience working with corporate senior leaders, David Dottles and Peter Kairo have summarized 11 patterns of leadership failure. These patterns are determined by personality traits that influence leadership behavior. Through numerous vivid cases, the authors point out that although these patterns are inevitable, CEOs can identify and control their own behavior, minimizing their harm. What is worth paying attention to for someone breaking into senior leadership in a company? The answer is competitors' analysis, painting a picture of the company's future, implementing great strategies, gathering talent, and communicating with the board. However, these considerations from a functional level are merely superficial. Over two-thirds of top leaders in world-class companies ultimately end up in failure, and they are almost all highly intelligent, knowledgeable, and experienced, with some having once saved companies from crises. Based on psychological analysis and the study of thousands of cases, the authors of this book prove that top leaders, before fulfilling their mission and achieving their tasks, need a discipline—reflection on individual behavioral patterns. The authors of this book have studied the career development curves of thousands of CEOs, analyzing from a human perspective the reasons for the downfall of CEOs of internationally renowned companies, summarizing 11 patterns that led to their failure. Since these patterns are determined by personality traits, they exist to some extent in everyone, but they are most harmful to senior managers whose success or failure is closely tied to the company's operations, leading to a rapid decline in company performance and a tragic failure in the manager's personal career. This is a profound and unique book on the realization of leadership, leveraging the findings of psychological research and more importantly, drawing from practical experience. It goes beyond general management strategy discussions, starting from the subtle and micro aspects of human darkness, analyzing the behavioral patterns of CEOs who once shone but then quickly fell, revealing how to observe one's own bad behavior and take...