What is the worst mistake a leader can make?

Through Imagining the Future of Leadership, a symposium at the Harvard Business School and accompanying blog series [click here], expert thinkers gathered to investigate what is necessary today to develop the leaders we need for tomorrow.

Here is a ”must watch” video during which nine world-renowned authorities on leadership discuss what they consider to be the worst mistake a leader can make.

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Bill George, Professor, Harvard Business School and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic
; co-author of Authentic Leadership and True North

Evan Wittenberg, Head of Global Leadership Development, Google, Inc.

Dr. Ellen Langer, Professor, Harvard University

Andrew Pettigrew, Professor, Sïad Business School, University of Oxford

Gianpiero Petriglieri, Affiliate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD

Carl Sloane, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School

Jonathan Doochin, Leadership Institute at Harvard College

Scott Snook, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School and retired Colonel, US Army Corps of Engineers

Daisy Wademan Dowling, Executive Director, Leadership Development at Morgan Stanley