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Leadership derailment

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

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In management & leadership, leadership derailment means: The loss of leadership effectiveness or of a leadership role after earlier promise or success, often linked to difficulty adapting behaviour or relationships.

In Turkish: liderlikte raydan çıkma

How it is used

Use for a breakdown in leadership effectiveness after earlier success; slow promotion alone does not establish derailment.

Example sentences

  1. The study linked leadership derailment to a manager's inability to move beyond doing all the work personally.

    An earlier strength can become a limitation when the role requires different behaviour.

  2. Feedback from colleagues revealed signs of leadership derailment before the director left the organisation.

    Relationship and adaptation difficulties can be observed before a final career outcome.

Common collocations

  • risk of leadership derailment
  • prevent leadership derailment
  • 360-degree feedbackA way of assessing an employee by collecting feedback from the people around them, such as their manager, colleagues, direct reports and sometimes customers, along with a self-assessment.
  • leadership styleThe typical way a person leads others, including how they make decisions, give instructions, share information and involve their team.

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