Why a Loyal CEO Can be Deadly
Being a loyal CEO can be deadly. But isn’t loyalty good? Admirable? Yes, but not always. Not when the CEO is loyal to people who aren’t loyal to the company.
As CEOs, most of us have struggled with earned loyalty versus misplaced loyalty. I thought this was a big enough issue to put in an international venue, and my editor at Forbes.com agreed. He took the article I had titled, “Why a Loyal CEO Can be Deadly”, and published it yesterday as, “Loyalty to your Underlings Can Be a Terrible Thing”.
Click on the link above to read the article on Forbes, and give me a piece of your mind by posting a comment on Forbes.
Tags: assertiveness, high performance environment, leadership acumen, misplaced loyalty, senior leader development
Robert Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He was chief executive of Bentley Publishing Group from 1984 to 2006 and steered the firm to become a leading player in its industry (decorative art publishing).