Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster

by D. Christopher Kayes

Leaders extol the value of pursuing challenging goals, but evidence suggests that this leads to disaster as often as success. Drawing upon real-life stories, including the Mount Everest Climbing Disaster, the author shows how destructive goal pursuit can cause the breakdown of learning in teams and calls for rethinking the role of the leader.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

First published June 29, 2006