Narcissist Leadership: Its traits and their impact on strategy implementation
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Defining narcissism
- The role of self-esteem to the development of narcissism
- Narcissistic leadership
- The types of narcissistic leadership
- The reactive narcissist leader
- The self-deceptive narcissist leader
- The constructive narcissist leader
- Narcissistic leadership and strategy implementation
- Conclusions
- References
The mistakes that leaders make in the context of strategy implementation are often the result of a narcissistic behavior which denies the participation of subordinates in the strategic decision making. Narcissistic leadership refuses updating obsolete organizational knowledge, participating to team schemes and active listening, resulting in a lack of confidence from organizational members towards top management. This paper identifies narcissist leadership as a major reason of failure in strategy implementation impacting profoundly the organizational welfare.
