Five Leadership Mistakes Of The Galactic Empire – Forbes
Posted by GruntDoc on March 6th, 2012
Amusing, and true:
But mistakes are learning opportunities. And in thinking about Star Wars, let’s leave the prequels behind and focus on the original trilogy. It occurs to me that the Star Wars films have a lot to teach us about leadership styles.
In particular, the Galactic Empire strikes me as a quintessential example of how not to effectively run an organization. Let’s take a look at five of the Empire’s biggest mistakes and see how you can avoid them in your own organization.
Mistake #1: Building an organization around particular people, rather than institutions.
via Five Leadership Mistakes Of The Galactic Empire – Forbes.
Really good point about tolerance for failure.
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March 28th, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Sweet learned something newtoday now I’m happy for today. Thanks!