5 The most dangerous career traps
In their highly commendable book Why CEOs Fail, based on thousands of cases they analysed, David Dotlich, a former top manager at Honeywell, and Peter Cairo, a lecturer at Columbia University, listed the most common reasons for top managers failing in their careers. In their book they refer to the work of university professor Robert Hogan, who is internationally recognised as a pioneer in the area of personality typing of managers, as well as to the research conducted at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), which has been involved in research into good leadership since 1970.
Dotlich and Cairo were interested in the question of why around two-thirds of all managers in Western industrialised nations experience ...
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