Corporate Training
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The test of any Leader is not what he or she accomplishes…..
Who are the greatest managers you’ve ever worked for or known? Would they meet the test, the great management consultant Peter Drucker suggested when he said :
“Leadership grounded in charisma, which is what so many writers want to advocate, inevitably becomes misleadership. I am amazed that today’s prominent writers on leadership do not seem to realise that the three most charismatic leaders in all recorded history were named Hitler, Stalin and Mao”.
Drucker believes that, without exception, all the charismatic leaders of the last 50 years – whether in business, government or religion – have ended in failure and disgrace and left a legacy or mismanagement and chaos.
“The test of any leader is not what he or she accomplishes. It is what happens when they leave the scene. It is the succession that is the test. If the enterprise collapses the moment these wonderful, charismatic leaders leave, that is not leadership. That is very bluntly – deception”.