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One of the most interesting studies that recognizes that leadership ‘incompetence’ is far more likely to derive from emotional rather than intellectual deficiencies is NF Dixon's classic book On the Psychology of Military Incompetence. Basically, what Dixon found was that incompetence in military leadership went way beyond notions of stupidity or incompetence, though both theseContinue reading “Leadership and authority”