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David Dotlich is an accomplished advisor on issues of leadership, strategy, and talent that develops corporate strategy and executive development programs for Fortune 500 companies.

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Why CEOs Fail

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In “Why CEOs Fail,” David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo outline the behavioral traits that lead to the most common mistakes in leadership – arrogance, melodramatic tendencies, volatile mood, excessive caution, habitual distrust, unapproachable demeanor, mischievousness, eccentricity, passive resistance, perfectionism and people-pleasing. Specific examples from the business world illustrate each one of these faults.

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