Unfortunately, yes. As a leader you have to make crucial decisions regarding your institution/organization. The others follow your decision. When you have decided to go North, the rest will do the same. Nobody could predict what will happen when you go North. You either reach the top or fail miserably, and taking all who follows you. Therefore it is important for a leader to get as much information before reaching a decision, from the colleagues, the news, the experts, and from experience. Combining all of this information will lead to less risky decision. Also, a good leader must have multi layer plans. When Plan A doesn’t work, must switch to Plan B. B doesn’t work, switch to C. and so on.

Inevitably, yes. Without vision, professionalism, experience and well-rounded management skills a division, department or office is likely to have a negative impact on a company or institution's overall performance.

If these inadequacies are shared by other divisions within a company or institution, the inevitable decline is likely to be rapid. The calibre of the leaders in any organisation is vital. On a simplistic level, how can a manager discipline staff for bad time keeping when they are guilty of this themselves? So, when it comes to the fundamentals of a business, if the leadership is uninspiring, how can less senior staff members be expected to carry out their roles in a professional and successful manner if they have no role model to guide and manage their performance?

I do believe so. Leaders are the ones that make the decisions, they decide the fate of the organization. They decide the organization’s goals consequently deciding on the image it has to the public, they decide the methods to achieve their goals, they decide how to treat employees, etc. All of these are important factors that decide if the organization will fail or succeed . The leader is many times the face and the voice of the organization, one bad move by the leader and the organization suffers, just like one good move by the leader and the organization benefits.

As much as leadership is inherent to the development and wellbeing or any organisation or society, it can also be toxic enough to lead to breakdowns and blows to organisations and institutions. It is unfortunate that sometimes leaders who are larger than life don’t necessarily act in the best interests of their organisations. This may result from letting personal goals to override the goals of an organisation or institution. We have very good examples of this phenomenon from the past in the forms of organisational leaderships for Enron, Satyam, WorldCom etc., These incidents in history remain as a call to employees and followers to identify and uproot narcissistic behaviour in leaders which often comes off as a symptom behind anything toxic that can happen to an organisation owing to personally led leadership.