The authors of a recent article from the Harvard Business Review analyzed a couple of study’s to find out why leaders fail.

As noted from the authors:

In one, we collected 360-degree feedback data on more than 450 Fortune 500 executives and then teased out the common characteristics of the 31 who were fired over the next three years. In the second, we analyzed 360-degree feedback data from more than 11,000 leaders and identified the 10% who were considered least effective.…