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Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can cause the breakdown of learning in teams and...

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Main Author: Kayes, D. Christopher (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Subjects:
Business and Management.
Human Resource Management.
Management.
Business.
Personnel management.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can cause the breakdown of learning in teams and calls for rethinking the role of the leader.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XXIV, 184 pages)
ISBN:9780230503472
DOI:10.1057/9780230503472