Ineffective Leaders

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🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Does your organization lack quality leadership? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Peter Bregman, a leadership expert. They talk through what to do when your leaders are indecisive, unprofessional, or value the wrong things.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.6	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.7	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.2	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.5	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:22.1	We can do something about them.
0:25.7	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:27.7	We take your questions about workplace dilemmas, and with the help of experts and insights
0:33.0	from academic research, we help you move forward.
0:42.4	Today we're talking about ineffective leaders with Peter Bregman.
0:47.4	He runs a consulting practice for senior managers, and he's also the author of Leading with Emotional Courage.
0:48.8	Peter, thanks for being on the show.
0:50.6	Thanks so much for having me.
0:51.9	It's fun to be here.
0:52.9	Why are there so many ineffective leaders?
0:55.4	Leadership is hard. I mean, it's very hard, almost unnatural. We're not really trained to be leaders
1:03.2	from a young age. We're actually trained to be followers from a young age. Even when we look at what
1:07.9	we do to train leaders, we're often training people to follow a certain process and to not actually lead, which is all about taking risks and
1:16.5	moving forward in ambiguity and making hard choices and decisions. And that's on the one hand.
1:22.8	And on the other hand, I think we also often have unrealistic expectations of leaders,
1:28.0	meaning we project a lot of, you know, ideal behavior and high expectations of what we expect leaders to do for us.
1:36.4	And it's a little bit of a setup for failure.
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