In June 2006, Marshall Goldsmith posted an article which contains one of the strangest leadership related sentences which I have read this year in a blog by a “thought leader.”

At Arthur Andersen, Johnson & Johnson, and Shell International, the heads of the leadership development process have senior-level business experience.

Arthur Andersen’s executives failed in their stewardship of their company. It does not matter how senior your leadership development team is, if the culture that they create and the proteges which they develop create the type of situation which led to their prosecution. Although the US Supreme Court overturned the verdict, this company which used to be one of the biggest accounting firms in the US is now involved in managing its defense against civil lawsuits and managing what appears to be the process of corporate dissolution.

Read the context of Marshall Goldsmith’s sentence at www.marshallgoldsmithbl…