Executive Coaching for Failed Leadership - A Look at the Dark Side

Are you working in an organization where leaders have failed to fulfill their promise? Do the leaders in your organization let their followers down?

One of the most powerful questions one can ask oneself is “Am I working in a company where leaders are doing the right thing?” Inspiring leaders put others interests ahead of their own.

Are you an ethical leader who displays good judgment?  Are you able to create a high performance workplace by creating a workplace climate where doing the right thing is your highest priority?

Executive Failure

Why have some very smart executives failed recently, bringing down whole companies, costing billions of dollars, and causing incredible losses to shareholders, customers and employees? What can be learned to avoid such huge failures?

Recent potential corporate bankruptcies in large part due to greed requiring government bailout at enormous cost reveal that some CEOs fail on such a scale that they bring the company down with them. These companies were led by executives with stellar track records of previous success.

CEOs are now lasting just 7.6 years in office on a global average, down from 9.5 years in 1995, according to consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005).

“We live and work in a world where organizational failure is endemic—but where frank, comprehensive dissections of those failures are still woefully infrequent; where success is too easily celebrated and failures are too quickly forgotten; where short-term earnings and publicity concerns block us from confronting— much less, learning from—our stumbles and our blunders.” —Jena McGregor, Fast Company Magazine, February 2005

The same underlying explanations can be seen as the cause of failure for all businesses and their leaders—whether they occurred during the 80s, 90s, or more recently. While the corporate cultures of failed businesses vary widely, there are visible patterns of similarity across CEOs. 

Working with a seasoned executive coach trained in emotional intelligence and incorporating leadership assessments such as the Bar-On EQ-i and CPI 260 can help you become a leader who is cares about people and does the right thing for the business enterprise. You can become a leader who models emotional intelligence, and who inspires people to become happily engaged with the strategy and vision of the company.