{"id":3085,"date":"2020-01-19T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2020-03-12T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:52:10","slug":"why-alpha-dogs-make-poor-leaders-in-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/why-alpha-dogs-make-poor-leaders-in-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8216;Alpha Dogs&#8217; Make Poor Leaders In Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The notion of the \u201calpha\u201d personality, identified long ago by experts in animal behavior, remains a useful term for a human type that is all too familiar: an unusually assertive, aggressive person with a strong need to dominate a group. They\u2019re usually thought of as male, but women can qualify, too.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some people see the alpha as the paradigm of the good leader: hard-charging, decisive and highly competitive. It has even been&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2004\/05\/coaching-the-alpha-male\" target=\"_blank\">estimated<\/a>&nbsp;that 70% of senior executives are alpha males.&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe, but alphas\u2014male or female\u2014 make less effective entrepreneurial leaders.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The notion of the \u201calpha\u201d personality, identified long ago by experts in animal behavior, remains a useful term for a human type that is all too familiar: an unusually assertive, aggressive person with a strong need to dominate a group. They\u2019re usually thought of as male, but women can qualify, too.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some people see the alpha&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}