{"id":356,"date":"2012-01-05T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2018-11-11T21:55:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T05:55:56","slug":"the-seven-habits-of-spectacularly-unsuccessful-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/the-seven-habits-of-spectacularly-unsuccessful-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a student of leadership and success, I&#8217;m a junkie for the stream of articles and business books that package up business research, observations, and insights into digestible bits.\u00a0 Somehow I had missed Sydney Finkelstein&#8217;s 2004 work on failure, and thought I&#8217;d share this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ericjackson\/2012\/01\/02\/the-seven-habits-of-spectacularly-unsuccessful-executives\/print\/\">review published in Forbes yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a good read, here is the teaser describing the these habits of leaders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Habit # 1:\u00a0 They see themselves and their companies as dominating their environment;<\/li>\n<li>Habit #2:\u00a0 They identify so completely with the company that there is no clear boundary between their personal interests and their corporation\u2019s interests;<\/li>\n<li>Habit #3:\u00a0 They think they have all the answers;<\/li>\n<li>Habit #4:\u00a0 They ruthlessly eliminate anyone who isn\u2019t completely behind them;<\/li>\n<li>Habit #5: They are consummate spokespersons, obsessed with the company image;<\/li>\n<li>Habit #6: They underestimate obstacles;<\/li>\n<li>Habit #7: They stubbornly rely on what worked for them in the past.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope you get as much value out of this as I did today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a student of leadership and success, I&#8217;m a junkie for the stream of articles and business books that package up business research, observations, and insights into digestible bits.\u00a0 Somehow &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/the-seven-habits-of-spectacularly-unsuccessful-executives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":16239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[98,90],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-startup-advice","tag-startups","tag-tech-founders"],"acf":[],"featured_image_data":{"src":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/thing.jpg","alt":"Founder Profile","caption":"Founder Profile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}