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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: A poor analysis of leadership qualities
Financial Times ; 27-Jan-2000, 157 words
From Mr. Ernest Brod.
...Sir, The Harvard Business Review may believe
that our superstar CEOs
could benefit from analysis, but your Lucy
Kellaway will have none of it
("Bringing the egos back down to earth", January 24). She concedes their
narcissistic behaviour, bad temper, inability to listen to others and lack of
self-knowledge. Yet she pronounces herself "certain (that) analysis would
make them worse leaders" and says that she would sell her shares in any
company whose leader was in analysis.
...Fortunately for business leaders, their families,
those who work with them
and those who do business with them, the corporate world has begun to
recognise that therapists and corporate "coaches" add shareholder value by
making executives more aware of their destructive repetitions and helping
them to become more effective (and less destructive) leaders. In a world
where even Tony Soprano, the fictional Mafia leader, can consult a therapist
to help him cope with his two families, Ms Kellaway's views seem stuck in
the murky past of her own childhood.
Ernest Brod, Executive Managing
Director,*
Kroll Associates
900 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10019, US
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* Mr.
Ernest Brod is also the
VP of Public Information at SMP
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