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The Cognitively Challenged Leader

In: The Elephant in the Boardroom

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  • Adrian Furnham

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Some leaders fail because they are not up to the job. There are various polite euphemisms and English expressions that state this: “He is a sausage short of a fry-up”; “The lift does not go to the top floor”; “The lights are on but no one is home”; “She’s a few pixels short of a wide-screen”. They are low wattage, dim, short-changed, thick, unintelligent. All these expressions mean leaders are “underpowered” for the job. They do not have the analytic and reasoning ability, the processing capacity or the knowledge base to make timely, wise decisions. The cognitively challenged leader crops up in organizations that promote on loyalty rather than ability, or where socio-political or technological changes make the world completely unpredictable.

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  • Adrian Furnham, 2010. "The Cognitively Challenged Leader," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Elephant in the Boardroom, chapter 9, pages 199-233, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28122-6_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230281226_9
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