Do you know of anyone who has derailed from a leadership position? (This can be someone you worked for or a leader of national/world prominence.) What did this person do that caused his or her demise?

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Leadership Derailment

Good leadership is undoubtedly challenging but it is inevitable in any organization , which is conscious of achieving its goals . However , many leaders derail and leave the path of credibility resulting to demotion loss of the position or failure to advance . A leader would derail as a result of behaviors that can lead to leadership failure . In this essay I give an explanation of divisional manager of a certain motor vehicle workshop who derailed and as a

result , he was demoted

Thomas was the divisional manager of the automotive workshop which was the service center of the automotive company I used to work for . As a management trainee in this workshop , I had an opportunity to deal directly with him and therefore I came to understand pretty well that he had some unethical conducts which later amounted to his demotion

Mr . Thomas had the tendency of intimidating and threatening his juniors He was arrogant and failed to appreciate the importance of team work As the workshop manager , he was expected to be technically competed and it was his responsibility to approve all the vehicles , which were coming and leaving the workshop and to give any technical support were necessary

One day , a car was brought for normal engine overhaul and the technician who was assigned that car was a new employee and had not yet acquired enough experience to deal with that problem . The technician went to Mr Thomas 's...