
6 Fatal Flaws that Kill a Leader's Effectiveness
Finding Fatal Flaws Chances are you’ve known or read about great leaders and learned that they have weaknesses. From that, you have concluded that you don’t have to be perfect to be a great leader. In the research my colleague Joe Folkman and I conducted, we too have found that mild weaknesses do not appear to erode an exceptional leader’s effectiveness. Our research highlighted, however, that there was a difference between a mere weakness and a fatal flaw. A fatal flaw is