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In the previous chapters, we have focused on leadership success: how it is to be defined, explained and encouraged. Here, we turn to the opposite: leadership failure. How and why does it go wrong and what might be done to prevent it?
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Pendleton, D., Furnham, A.F., Cowell, J. (2021). When It All Goes Wrong: Leaders Who Fail and Derail. In: Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60437-0_10
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