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Leveraging Leadership Development to Pre-Empt Leader Derailments
1Psychology Department, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA.
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 8, 2025
Summary
Proactive leadership development, particularly early in careers, can prevent costly leader derailments. A preventative approach using diverse interventions, not just coaching, is key to mitigating leadership failures.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Leadership Studies
- Human Resource Development
Background:
- Leader derailments are frequent and incur substantial costs (financial, morale, turnover).
- Failures are often most visible at senior levels, suggesting potential for earlier intervention.
- Current leadership development may focus on remediation rather than prevention.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate if leadership development can preempt leader derailments.
- To explore the potential of early-career and transition-focused interventions.
- To advocate for a preventative 'medicine' model in leadership development.
Main Methods:
- Literature review on leadership derailment and development interventions.
- Conceptual analysis of preventative strategies.
- Discussion of five specific interventions for pre-empting failure.
Main Results:
- Leadership failures are costly and common.
- Early-career development may prevent later derailments.
- Over-reliance on coaching may limit effectiveness.
Conclusions:
- A preventative model for leadership development is proposed.
- A broader range of interventions, deployed in unison, can minimize derailments.
- Focusing on early-stage development offers a promising strategy.
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