Good leadership, bad leadership.

     It is true, nowadays, it is not easy or simple to develop a good leader, especially in term of high quality and business ethics with organizational and industrial declines. In a study of leaders’ behaviors (data collected from 85 companies) those outcomes in organizational failure and at last direct them to make a downsizing decision, Carmeli and Sheaffer (2009) report and argue, “both leadership risk-aversion and self-centeredness are significantly related to organizational decline. This results in intensified organizational downsizing” (p.1). In this case, major leadership traits of intelligence, innovation, self-confidence, determination, integrity and sociability are very essential and critical, especially in crisis or slow economy. We need leaders to lead us, and not just follow. References.

Carmeli, A., & Sheaffer, Z. (2009, June). How leadership characteristics


       affect organizational decline and downsizing.  Journal of Business


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Northouse, P. G. (2007).  Leadership theory and practice (4th edition).    

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