Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster
Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can cause the breakdown of learning in teams and calls for rethinking the role of the leader.
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Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster
Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can cause the breakdown of learning in teams and calls for rethinking the role of the leader.
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Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster

Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster

by D. Kayes
Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster

Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster

by D. Kayes

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Overview

Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can cause the breakdown of learning in teams and calls for rethinking the role of the leader.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349281015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 02/02/2016
Edition description: 1st ed. 2006
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

D. CHRISTOPHER KAYES is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at George Washington University, USA. His research includes 35 papers and numerous consulting engagements around the world. He has won several awards, including best paper in 2004 in the journal Human Relations for The 1996 Mt. Everest Climbing Disaster: The Breakdown of Learning in Teams. His paper Experiential Learning and Its Critics: Preserving the Role of Experience in Management Learning and Education was one of three best papers for 2002-2003 in the Academy of Management Learning and Education, nominated alongside Henry Mintzberg and Jeffery Pfeiffer.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: EVEREST AND DESTRUCTIVE GOAL PURSUIT The 1996 Mt. Everest Climbing Disaster Destructive Goal Pursuit The Problem of Goalodicy The Limits of Leadership The Breakdown of Learning in Teams PART II: OVERCOMING DESTRUCTIVE GOAL PURSUIT Learning Teamwork Ethical Decision-Making PART III: REMEDIES: EVEREST AS A SOURCE OF LEARNING ABOUT LEADERSHIP From Destructive to Productive Pursuit Rethinking the Role of Leader
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