One bad apple really can destroy the whole applecart. While our firm has the luxury of working with some really terrific companies around helping develop their leaders for the future by working to develop and design curriculum and programs like executive coaching, 360 feedback, coaching skills for leaders or leadership and team development, not every company gets the need to be congruent on what they say they want in their leader's behaviors and what they actually get in behavior. We are always amazed by the notion that some companies prioritize a leaders' results over bad leadership behavior. We see this time and time again in the following illustrated examples:
