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"Leaders are watched. They are scrutinised. If you don’t like the idea of being
held accountable and having to answer for your actions then a leadership role
is probably not for you.
I don’t know if such thoughts have ever occurred to Liz Truss, who is still, at
the time of writing, Britain’s prime minister. But perhaps the truth is
beginning to dawn on her. She has picked the wrong time and place to discover
that leadership may not be quite her thing.
As you rise up an organisation there will be greater rewards to accompany
greater responsibility. The so-called “tournament theory” of organisational
life explains this process quite well.
But with those rewards and responsibilities comes greater exposure to criticism
and scepticism. As the crude saying has it: “The higher a monkey climbs, the
more you can see its arse.” The sort of mistakes Truss was able to get away
with or laugh off as a more junior figure cannot be so easily dismissed now she
is, for the time being, prime minister.
Truss has rapidly become a case study in leadership failure. What have been her
most glaring mistakes?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
