Why Good Leaders Pass The Credit And Take The Blame

Posted by Babajan786 under Human Resources
From http://ziaullahkhan.blogspot.com 226 days ago

A few years ago my colleague Flemming Norrgren and I asked a long-tenured European CEO how he came up with the idea for his company's radical and new strategic direction. "Oh, that's an interesting question," he said. "I never thought about it in that way. Certainly it was not only me. I had a big role, but it was not me, me, me. This is not an American organization."

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Written by businessavante
226 days ago

Hi Tobias.

I'm really loving these articles from Z-S.

Is it possible (from your research) that some of those CEO's who took singular credit for mistakes did so after they were already blamed, already under the gun from the press, their boards of directors, the law, or the Gubmen (i.e. like BP last year)?

Also, did they voluntarily take the blame w/o pressure from the board, and on major screw-ups, or mainly for small flubs? We all know what happens when someone in authority does the Nixon/Watergate denial bit.

Duncan

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