What can erode or contaminate Leadership? Iceberg Metaphor

It is known that an iceberg is a great hazard to navigation because after the apparent safety of the visible mass of ice and can easily fragmented by the ship's hull, the vast mass that exceeds the strength of any boat is hidden.



In business, it is assumed although it is not necessarily true, that after the office of a boss, manager, CEO or any other name is a leader. It is understood that the leader leads people to do what is good and necessary for the organization. However, although it is expected that the head is a leader in practice are like two elements that usually do not bind or binds automatically but as a result of a careful and efficient work who is expected to be the leader.



A true leader has linked to his personality and behavior details like Humility, professional proficiency, Realism and understanding of the potential and personal limitations and that organization, Willingness to learn, Proactivity, Search for the best people avoiding flatterers or people Similarly, Honesty, Self-Esteem, Respect for others, strong values, transparency. There are many more attributes own leader, but only mention some as opposed to someone who is displaying no leader and that paradoxically holds a position of importance in an entity, generally the public sector.

In Figure 1 is shown schematically what this leader generates among the people who are part of  your organization or those he leads.

By contrast, those who do not have the requirements to be leaders are those who eventually take the organization to a catastrophic state, whether by destruction, for it again unmanageable, create crises around scope for wasting the potential, when there , collaborators or resources available, for letting faith or confidence that put him at the head of the organization or supported it (assuming they have had the intention of achieving positive results through its management, also rare fact that at usually walk the same paths).

The analysis indicates that the level, quality and intensity of leadership goes inversely related to the presence of negative traits such as those listed below: Arrogance, incompetence, alienation, self-sufficiency, mendacity, need for flattery (obsequious sickly finding collaborators or professional sycophants), contempt for others, absence or weakening of values, inability or unwillingness to learn, corruption.

All these vices and negative features have the effect of an iceberg, because even normal, minimal risk or efficient performance appears, in fact, represent a serious and unavoidable danger to organizations (ships). Who confronts them lose, the ship hit an iceberg is irretrievably lost.

 A current case showing the second situation concerns the covert negotiations between the Obama administration and the Taliban in exchange for an American soldier for six terrorist leaders. Other cases can be found frequently and with increasing intensity on public organizations, especially in Latin America and Africa, at all levels of government.

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http://www.hacer.org/latam/?p=40232 

Thus, contaminated and eroded by self-sufficiency, pride, complacency and alienation leadership is the most expensive liabilities of a public or private entity; therefore, is highly detrimental to the organization and should be controlled or eliminated root, no compromises.