Posts Tagged ‘maxwell fallacy’
Maxwell Fallacy: stronger, yet simple
At this point, you’re bound to be thinking that timeshare salespeople and insane strong men are extreme examples. However, this is exactly my point. These two examples are certainly outliers, but they’re still valid. And because they’re valid, the Maxwell definition is invalid. It is simple, but it is weak. The challenge then, is to [...]
Maxwell Fallacy: no bad leaders
Shortly after any political or corporate scandal, the talk on the media immediately shifts to a discussion on bad leadership. Indeed, Jeffrey Skilling was a bad leader of Enron. This brings on a never-ending debate about how we distinguishing between good leaders and bad leaders. In our mind, we can easily cite good leaders from [...]
Maxwell Fallacy: salespeople are leaders?
A few years ago, I was invited to a special presentation. I was offered a three-night, all expenses paid vacation in the Caribbean. The only stipulation was that on Day Three of the vacation, I had to listen to a special presentation about the resort I was staying at. I declined. As I’m sure you [...]
The Maxwell Fallacy
Leadership is perhaps the hardest concept to define. Warren Bennis once wrote, “It is almost a cliché of the leadership literature that a single definition of leadership is lacking. Author Joesph Rost commented on this dilemma by writing “The scholars do not know what they are studying, and the practitioners do not know what they [...]
