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Three Lessons to Beat Leadership Derailment

Rick Conlow and Doug Watsabaugh -  11/6/13

High levels of leadership failure cause heightened levels of employee dissatisfaction. Proactive leaders must learn three key lessons to win in today's competitive marketplace.

Leadership failures of all kinds happen on a weekly basis, with management derailment studies showing that business leaders fail at an alarming rate. Research published in July 2013 in the International Journal of Business and Management found that 30 to 67 percent of leaders fail.

What’s more, the Gallup Business Journal in June 2013 reported that 70 percent of employees are not fully engaged in their jobs. A 2012 Dale Carnegie report also showed that effective leadership creates a culture that powers employee engagement. Carnegie’s study showed that just 29 percent of employees are fully engaged. According to Gallup, this leadership failure costs companies in the United States an estimated $450 billion to $550 billion a year.

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