Purpose – This paper aims to outline three ways in which a leader's behavior‐in‐context can be examined. As such it moves away from an emphasis on a leader's “performance and personality” and focuses on underlying contextual features which can lead to success or failure....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the need to examine non‐conventional motivations of leaders and illustrate how such underlying dynamics can result in executive failure and organisational decline. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reflects on some of the...