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Summary.
When a CEO’s leadership style creates more problems than it solves, organizational performance can suffer—sometimes dramatically. Research from McKinsey shows that up to 45% of a company’s performance variation is directly tied to the effectiveness of its CEO. Gallup finds that managers and leaders account for 70% of the variance in employee engagement. In other words, when leadership goes wrong at the top, the consequences cascade quickly.
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