October 9, 2015
Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership
By Matt Proctor Why do some leaders fail? The answers often lie below the “waterline.” The Brooklyn Bridge is a New York City icon, but during its construction, controversy arose. It seemed to the watching public that no progress had been made for months on the New York tower””the Manhattan side of the river. While the Brooklyn tower rose 100 feet above the water, the New York tower was still 78 feet below the surface, unseen. Building Below the Waterline So in June 1872, the chief engineer of the project wrote: “To such of the general public as might imagine that
