This article is about success, its positive aspects and, unfortunately, its negative aspects. Since most individuals are motivated to seek success from early on, what happens when an individual becomes quite successful and then believes he/she is more deserving of it? Such individuals often develop an overblown self-belief system, suggesting a…

Analyzes management styles of numerous leaders who failed. Presents these categories of styles not associated with success: dictator, blocker, withholder, brownnoser, butcher, non-delegator, worrier, troublemaker, malcontent, weakling, jealous executive, and no-conscience administrator. (Author/ABL)

Discusses failure of the civil war prison at Andersonville in terms of administrative problems. Failure is blamed on lack of clear channels of authority and communications. Correction of these organizational problems laid the groundwork for a system that would meet its goals. A flowchart is presented. (JAC)