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- Introduction
- Six major areas of investigation (1)
- Six major areas of investigation (2)
- History of psychological thinking about leadership
- Leadership roles
- Themes in the new leadership literature
- Why early trait work failed (1)
- Why early trait work failed (2)
- Characteristics of successful leaders
- Characteristics of superior leaders
- The five dimensions
- Intelligence: single best predictor
- The code of a talented leader
- The behavioural approach
- Transactional and transformational leadership
- Kouzes & Posner’s “Five Leadership Practices”
- The REG theory
- Challenge and support
- Signs of success: early identification of talent (1)
- Signs of success: early identification of talent (2)
- Signs of success: early identification of talent (3)
- The transformational & charismatic leader
- Managerial courage
- The Icarus syndrome - the myth
- The Icarus syndrome - the moral
- Why do high flyers fall?
- Basic requirements of a leader
- Other desirable traits of a leader
- Typical personality disorder problems
- Flawed personality
- Antisocial personality disorder (1)
- Antisocial personality disorder (2)
- Narcissistic personality disorder (1)
- Narcissistic personality disorder (2)
- Paranoid personality disorder (1)
- Paranoid personality disorder (2)
- Schizoid personality disorder (1)
- Schizoid personality disorder (2)
- Histrionic personality disorder (1)
- Histrionic personality disorder (2)
- Obsessive compulsive personality disorder (1)
- Obsessive compulsive personality disorder (2)
- Organisational error and compliably
- Corporate business units as 'schools' (1)
- Corporate business units as 'schools' (2)
- Derailment patterns of high potentials
- Competencies and their dark sides
- Solution
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Topics Covered
- Six issues in leadership issues
- History of psychological thinking about leadership
- Leadership roles
- Themes in leadership literature
- Problems with trait work
- Characteristics of successful leaders
- Five dimensions of personality
- The talented leader
- The behavioural approach
- Transactional vs. transformational leadership
- REG theory
- Growing leadership capability
- Managerial courage
- The Icarus syndrome
- The moral
- Why do high flyers fall?
- Selection
- Flawed personalities
- Graduates of business units
- Derailment patterns of high potentials
- Competencies and their dark sides
- Solution
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Furnham, A. (2020, April 30). Sweet dreams and nightmares: learning from good and bad leaders [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved December 6, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/QOHW4006.Export Citation (RIS)
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Sweet dreams and nightmares: learning from good and bad leaders
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0:00
My name is Adrian Furnham,
I am a Professor of Psychology at University College London.
The topic of my lecture is called "Sweet Dreams and Nightmares,
Learning From Good and Bad Leaders".
I'm going to look at what we know about leaders and more
particularly the recent research on failed and derailed leaders,
and what it teaches us about the topic of leadership.
0:25
If we look at the topic of leadership,
at least from a psychological perspective,
it appears that there are a number of quite distinct topics.
Six in particular seem to be quite common.
One is called position power,
and this looks at organizational roles and positions.
It's got to do with organizational structure,
whether you have a tall organization or a flat organization,
and how power and influence is used in those organizations.
So an example of a tall organization would be the military
with people having a clear span of control.
Certain number of generals, certain number of colonels,
and under colonels, certain number of majors, etc,
as opposed to a very flat organization like the Roman Catholic Church,
which only has three or four levels.
Power and influence are used differently in organizations depending on their structure.
I'm not going to spend much time talking about that topic.
The second topic is on the leaders themselves.
This is a very long literature,
it's called the "Great Man Theory of Literature",
and I'm going to spend some time looking at that.
The third topic is not on the leaders,
but on the led.
Looking at work groups and subordinates and how
those individuals who are led by
certain leaders have a significant influence on the leader.
So the group size and experience of
subordinates all affect the way they accept leadership.
Again, this is a small topic,
I'm not going to spend much time talking on it.