Leadership and Murphy’s Law

With the news so full of claims about leadership, it’s a good time to look for basic research on that subject. Buried in the heaps of academic vagary about leadership is, at least, one useful, practical nugget.

There is a simple question that every competent leader keeps in mind, and no incompetent leader does: “What can go wrong?”…

So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.

Improbable Research