Perils of ‘looking good’ while leading through crisis
When leaders obsess about looking good instead of doing good, priorities get lopsided
As Covid rages across the country and the death toll mounts much of our political leadership and often with business leadership there is an obsession with looking good. The official death toll has just crossed 3,00,000 but internal medical experts and often officials, speaking of course on condition of anonymity, acknowledge that the real number could be from three to ten times that number. A recent
Economist modelling estimated that the real number was at least a million dead!
This is just one of the symptoms when leaders fall prey to obsessing over whether they are looking good versus whether they are actually doing good. What are the other symptoms and consequences of this style of leadership?