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Back to EpisodesShackleton Created the Crisis. Why Do We Teach Him as the Hero?
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In today's episode:
A famous polar explorer studied in business schools everywhere turns out to have been a disaster of planning and poor decisions, while the one who actually succeeded is rarely talked about.
There's a name for the bias that makes dramatic, fire-fighting leaders look heroic, even when they're the ones who started the fire.
A reorganization at a major company got celebrated as visionary leadership, when it was really just one executive cleaning up a mess he created two years earlier.
CEO Daily Brief is a 5-minute daily podcast where business pragmatism meets inner wisdom. Hosted by Dr. Jessica Kriegel, Chief Strategy Officer at Culture Partners. She is frequently joined by John Frehse, Global Head of Labor Strategies at Ankura.
Jessica revisits a conversation with leadership professor Martin Gutmann about the "action fallacy," why history celebrates dramatic, crisis-prone leaders like Shackleton over less-dramatic, successful ones like Amundsen, and what that bias costs us today.
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