Leadership in Failure Recovery: How Teams Rebound from Coordination Breakdowns

Studies emphasize leadership’s role in preventing failures, but Dell'Acqua et al. (2023) show AI-induced coordination collapses are inevitable. This idea asks what happens after failure, integrating Porter et al.’s (2024) team learning framework with crisis leadership and Rahul’s (2024) emotional intelligence model for post-failure trust repair. It proposes tracking teams through failure simulations (e.g., IT project outages) to pinpoint recovery tactics, such as leaders using blameless post-mortems to rebuild coordination. This juxtaposes success and failure contexts and fills a gap where leadership is studied as a buffer, not a resilience engine. It could redefine effective leadership as the ability to leverage breakdowns for growth.

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