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10 Major Causes of failure in leadership


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

execution. The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

        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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