Leadership Potential and Risks Flashcards
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In Korn Ferry's research on executive derailment, which interpersonal risk is most commonly cited as causing high-potential leaders to fail after promotion?
Answer: Inability to build and maintain relationships
Korn Ferry's derailment research consistently finds that interpersonal relationship failures — not technical deficits — most often derail high-potential leaders at senior levels.
Which Korn Ferry framework component examines a leader's 'why' — the internal motivations that drive sustained leadership effort?
Answer: Leadership Drivers
In Korn Ferry's Leadership Framework, 'Drivers' represent the values and motivations that fuel a leader's engagement and commitment over the long term.
A leader who sets an inspiring vision but struggles to translate it into executable plans exhibits a gap in which Korn Ferry competency cluster?
Answer: Executing for results
The ability to translate vision into concrete, achievable action falls under Korn Ferry's 'Executing for Results' competency cluster.
According to Korn Ferry, which of the following is a characteristic of 'self-awareness' as a leadership potential indicator?
Answer: Accurately understanding one's own strengths and development needs
Korn Ferry defines self-awareness as a leader's accurate understanding of their own capabilities, blind spots, and impact on others.
When Korn Ferry describes a leader as having 'overused strengths,' they mean:
Answer: The leader relies on a skill so heavily it becomes a liability in certain contexts
Overused strengths occur when a leader applies a genuine skill so reflexively that it becomes counterproductive — for example, a decisive leader who stops listening to input.
In a Korn Ferry 360-degree feedback assessment, discrepancies between self-ratings and rater ratings most often indicate:
Answer: A potential blind spot or area of limited self-awareness
Large gaps between self-perception and others' perceptions signal blind spots — areas where the leader's self-image diverges from their actual impact.
Korn Ferry's VUCA leadership model addresses which external environment condition that requires leaders to anticipate multiple possible futures?
Answer: Uncertainty
In VUCA, 'Uncertainty' refers to the inability to predict future states, requiring leaders to build scenarios and prepare for multiple possible outcomes.