LEADERSHIP AND THE BACKDATED MINDSET
Backdated-mindset leaders, like backdated-mindset people in general, live in a world where some people are superior and some are inferior. They must affirm that they are superior, and the company is simply a platform for this. Leaders were typically concerned with their reputation for personal greatness—so much so that they often set the company up to fail when their regime ended. After all, what better testament to your own personal greatness than that the place falls apart after you leave.These leaders, the researchers saw a -gargantuan personal ego- that either hastened the tarnish of the company or kept it second-rate. Many of these comparison companies operated on what calls a genius with a thousand helpers type. Instead of building an extraordinary management team like the good-to-great companies, they operated on the low-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their ideas. Don’t forget that great geniuses don’t want great teams members, either. Low-mindset people want to be the only big fish so that when they compare themselves to those around them, they can feel a cut above the rest. In not one autobiography of a low-mindset CEO did I read much about mentoring or employee development programs. In every high-mindset autobiography, there was deep concern with personnel development and extensive discussion of it.
Finally, the geniuses refused to look at their faults . The good-to-great Kroger grocery chain looked bravely at the danger signs in the 1970s—signs that the old-fashioned grocery store was becoming extinct. Meanwhile, its counterpart, A&P, once the largest retailing organization in the world, shut its eyes. For example, when A&P opened a new kind of store, a superstore, and it seemed to be more successful than the old kind of, they closed it down. It was not what they wanted to listen. In opposite, Kroger eliminated or changed every single store that did not fit the new superstore model and by the end of the 1990s it had become the number one grocery chain in the country.
Finally, the geniuses refused to look at their faults . The good-to-great Kroger grocery chain looked bravely at the danger signs in the 1970s—signs that the old-fashioned grocery store was becoming extinct. Meanwhile, its counterpart, A&P, once the largest retailing organization in the world, shut its eyes. For example, when A&P opened a new kind of store, a superstore, and it seemed to be more successful than the old kind of, they closed it down. It was not what they wanted to listen. In opposite, Kroger eliminated or changed every single store that did not fit the new superstore model and by the end of the 1990s it had become the number one grocery chain in the country.
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