The 10 Major causes of failure in Leadership
1. Inability to organize details: - Efficient
leadership calls for the ability to organize and to master details. No genuine
leader is ever too busy to do anything which may be required of him in his
capacity as a leader. When a person whether he is a leader or follower, admits
that he is “too busy” to change his plans to give attention to any emergency,
he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all
details connected with his position. That means he must acquire the habit of
relegating details of capable lieutenants.
2. Unwillingness to render humble service: - Truly
great leaders are willing when the occasion demands; to perform any sort of labor
which they would ask another to perform. “The greatest among you shall be the
servant of all” is a truth that all able leaders observe and respect.
3. Application
of potential knowledge: - Most often
every individual seeks the knowledge to grow or to thrive until they are aware
of themselves and their goals and they also accumulate these large chunks of
knowledge but still fails for the only reason ford
4.
Fear of competition from followers: - The leader
who fears that one of his followers may take his position is practically sure
to realize that fear sooner or later. The able leader trains understudies to
whom he may delegate, at will, any of the details of his position. Only in this
way may a leader multiply him and prepare him to be at many places and give
attention to many things at one time. Its eternal truth that men receive more
pays for their ability to get others to perform than they could possibly earn by
their own efforts. An efficient leader may, through his knowledge of his job
and the magnetism of his personality, greatly increase the efficiency of
others, and induce them to render more service and better service than they
could render without his aid.
5.
Lack of imagination: - Without imagination, the
leader is incapable of meeting emergencies can and of creating plans by which
to guide his followers efficiently.
6.
Selfishness: - The leader who claims the entire
honor for the work of his followers. It is sure to be met by resentment. The
really great leaders claim none of the honors. He is contented to see the
honors when there are any go to his followers because he knows that most men
will work harder for commendation and recognition than they will for money
alone.
7. Intemperance: - Followers do not respect an
intemperate leader. Moreover, intemperance in any of its various forms, destroy
the endurance and the vitality of all who indulge in it
8.
Disloyalty: - Perhaps this should have come at
the head of the list. The leader who is not loyal to his trust and to his
followers and associates cannot maintain his leadership. Disloyalty marks one
as being less than the dust of the earth and brings down on one’s head the contempt
he deserves, lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk
of life. The loyalty is correlated with many terms like trust, worthiness, and
break of such huge particle to one’s own life is disdaining the character
as well as the destiny of the whole team or the followers of the leader.
9.
Emphasis of the ‘Authority” of leadership:
- The efficient leader leads by
encouraging and not by trying to instill fear in the hearts of his followers.
The leader who tries to impress his followers with his “authority” comes within
the category of leadership through force. If a leader is a real leader, he will
have no need to advertise that fact except by his conduct, sympathy,
understanding, fairness, and demonstration that he knows his job.
10.
Emphasis of TITLE: - the competent leader
requires no “title” to give him the respect of his followers. The man who
makes too much over his title generally has little else to emphasize. The doors
to the office of the real leader are open to all who wish to enter and his
working quarters are free from formality or ostentation.
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