That applies as well, I think, to corporate America. Authoritarian leadership styles discourage competence. Competence requires the existence of an independent set of standards, those of a given craft. Leaders, or corporate managers, who insist on authoritarian control refuse to defer to such standards, and when the importance of those standards is reduced, the craft suffers.<\/p>\n
This happens a lot, whether at the Ashgabat airport or in FEMA under the Bush administration. (I\u2019m trying to state this in the abstract, but I\u2019m also a copy editor for the largest newspaper chain in the country, so it\u2019s not an entirely abstract point for me.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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