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Crimes of Leadership Malfeasance

Leadership is never easy, even in the best of times. So when you add the extra stresses associated with the deep economic downturn we have experienced since the fall of 2007, the competence of business leaders has been pressure tested like never before. Rising financial uncertainty, market instability and the enormous destruction of wealth we have witnessed across the global economy mean that every sector, household and organization has been touched in some negative way.

The loss of financial value in the stock markets, the depressed employment markets and reduced levels of industrial performance and productivity are the issues that most often make the headlines. They are the most visible of the consequences ...

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