Absentee Leadership
The popular media is full of examples of bad leaders in government, academia, and business with these characteristics. However, there is something arguably worse than an incompetent boss. It’s the manager that is not overtly misbehaving, nor is a ranting, narcissistic sociopath. Rather, they are a leader in title only — their role is leadership, but they provide none. That is an example of absentee leadership. Absentee leadership rarely comes up in today’s leadership or business literature, but research shows that it is the most common form of incompetent leadership.
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The popular media is full of examples of bad leaders. But the most common kind of incompetent leader actually isn’t the ranting, narcissistic sociopath that might immediately come to mind.
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