Leadership is the ability to coordinate collective human activity. When it functions well, it can turn a group of people into a high-performing team. This requires significant expertise, intelligence, and self-awareness, not to mention the right combination of personality traits.
Despite a well-established science of identifying leaders and no shortage of reliable tools to assess leaders’ potential, half of senior executives can be expected to fail, and the baseline for competent leadership continues to be rather low.
So, what explains the gap between the leaders we need and the leaders we get? Read this great HBR article to find out more.