Titlebook: Destructive Goal Pursuit; The Mt. Everest Disa D Christopher Kayes Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Rethinking leadership in organizationsmphasis on goals at the expense of learning is particularly troublesome in the area of leadership. Conventional wisdom on leadership suggests that leaders should set ambitious and challenging goals and then get out of the way (e.g., Hackman, 2002). This chapter suggests that this kind of thinking ca

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Conclusion: Putting leadership into action to take shape. The 1996 Mt Everest climbing disaster, in particular the teams led by Scott Fischer and Rob Hall, provides a compelling illustration of the process of destructive goal pursuit. As the climbers continued to put more and more effort into reaching the summit and continued to ignore pre-

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5285-4esents the three counterintuitive points of the book: the limits of goals and their pursuit, the need for less attention on goals and more attention on group dynamics, and the problems brought about by strong leadership.

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When is the Incentive Problem Real?asy routes, you seek greater challenges. Dreaming of the summit becomes electric, the experience of climbing a craving. After a time your dreams become bigger. Each mountain peak you climb and each successful summit make you crave more. You begin to catch what climbers call “summit fever.”

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45557-0ders should set ambitious and challenging goals and then get out of the way (e.g., Hackman, 2002). This chapter suggests that this kind of thinking can lead to disastrous consequences because it assumes too much from both teams and leaders.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45557-0f the process of destructive goal pursuit. As the climbers continued to put more and more effort into reaching the summit and continued to ignore pre-established turnaround times, the team of climbers pursued the summit at the cost of their own lives.

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