Nearly half of chief execs don't live up to expectations. So how can you tell the duds from the stars?
UCL professor Adrian Furnham offers advice on how to distinguish the successful high-flyer from the walking disaster who could wreck your company.
There are more than 50,000 books with 'leadership' in their title but almost none about a common phenomenon that few in business are prepared to talk about - screwing up. There may be studies of wicked, evil leaders, often written by historians, but there is almost nothing on the taboo subject of the charming, talented, high-flying CEOs who should have done brilliantly but instead fail or go off the tracks. It is not that there is a refusal to admit it happens, but nobody is prepared to talk about this particular elephant in the boardroom.
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