Destructive Goal Pursuit : The Mt. Everest Disaster
Kayes, D. Christopher
ISBN 10: 023000332X ISBN 13: 9780230003323
Published by Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2006
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Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can cause the breakdown of learning in teams and calls for rethinking the role of the leader.
About the Author: D. CHRISTOPHER KAYES is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at George Washington University, USA. His research includes 35 papers and numerous consulting engagements around the world. He has won several awards, including best paper in 2004 in the journal Human Relations for The 1996 Mt. Everest Climbing Disaster: The Breakdown of Learning in Teams. His paper Experiential Learning and Its Critics: Preserving the Role of Experience in Management Learning and Education was one of three best papers for 2002-2003 in the Academy of Management Learning and Education, nominated alongside Henry Mintzberg and Jeffery Pfeiffer.
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Title: Destructive Goal Pursuit : The Mt. Everest ...
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st.