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Dethroning Loyalty

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Loyalty has long been an overrated quality in the workplace. Employees have for decades understood that their loyalty is rarely ...

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What’s wrong with loyalty? Isn’t it a virtue to display steadfast allegiance to something or someone other than oneself? After all, loyalty has been celebrated as a virtue across many cultures for millennia.

As economic headwinds and a tough job market appear to be empowering more authoritarian styles of leadership, it’s a good time to look more closely at loyalty. We must ask whether good leaders can fairly demand it of their followers and whether it’s an idea that modern management should finally discard.

Two recent high-profile examples illustrate just how problematic an emphasis on loyalty can be.

Staffers loyal to former U.S. President Joe Biden allegedly concealed troubling signs of the aging leader’s cognitive decline before his poor performance...

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