Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster | 
 enlarge | Author: D. Christopher Kayes
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 023000332X
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4092
EAN: 9780230003323
ASIN: 023000332X
Publication Date: October 17, 2006
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Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon engaging real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can result in the breakdown of learning in teams. He questions assumptions about traditional leadership and calls for rethinking the role of the leader. This provides an unparalleled analysis of leadership and practical strategies for overcoming destructive pursuit of goals.
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Smart study on the dangers of goal obsession February 15, 2008
Rolf Dobelli (Luzern Switzerland)
You can see the summit; it's right there, a lifelong goal. Unfortunately, you're out of oxygen, it's getting dark and a storm is brewing. Setting goals and doggedly pursuing them is a corporate religion, so it seems blasphemous to assert that focusing on goals can be fatal. However, the 1996 Everest disaster shows that sticking to stubborn, simple goals in complicated, shifting environments can lead to fiasco. D. Christopher Kayes evaluates the dynamics of teams and leaders in crisis, as illustrated by this tragedy, where climbers died trying to reach the summit who might have survived if they hadn't single-mindedly pursued that goal. getAbstract recommends Kayes' compellingly written study to those who wish to understand leadership's vulnerabilities, and goal setting's potential to cause unforeseen and dire results. To ensure that your goals lead to success, build resilient teams that can learn on the edge of the cliff.
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