If you look at the major news stories in business, politics, diplomacy, whatever, it\u2019s pretty hard to miss that most of the crises we face are crises of leadership.<\/p>\n\n
I once worked for a man who couldn\u2019t pull the trigger on a project, ever. I would bring him a request with all the supporting documentation. He would ask me to rerun it. When I came back, he would want it rerun again, and again.<\/p>\n
It was like an endless doom loop of frustration. I could never get him off the dime. By the time he approved it, the opportunity was lost, and he would blame me for missing it. It was utterly dispiriting.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve worked for a few spectacularly bad bosses in my time. And as a corporate executive I\u2019ve had others equally bad occasionally working for me.<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s no surprise, but whether it\u2019s those leaders in my immediate experience or the ones I read about in the news, I see the same failures and mistakes over and over, and each one has a direct impact on getting the results we want.<\/p>\n\t\t