Part 5 of 5 - The Five Seductions of Leadership

Taken from an article on Leadership by Dave Anderson in Oct edition of Dealer Magazine
Seduction is defined as: enticing someone from the right behavior; to lure or entice away from duties, principles or proper conduct.

Seduction #5: Leaders are seduced by success.
Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people don't behave rationally.  Because of this, success lies at the core of the other four seductions. Success can make one so arrogant, prideful, and blind to reality that they keep skipping right down the yellow-brick road until they smack right into a wall of irrelevance.

Remedy: Understand Jim Collin's principle, "The enemy of great is good." This simply means that the number one reason so many reading this message are unlikely to become great is because they've gotten good; as a result they've stopped stretching, changing, risking, holding other accountable, narrowing their focus and have lost their killer instinct. This doesn't have to happen on your leadership watch, and it won't if you are aware of, and work to overcome the five leadership seductions. They are very real and they aren't going away. But they can be overcome.