Every leadership strength has a shadow side. This book goes looking for it.
In The Art, the Science and the Essence of Leadership, Colin Ralph took readers through galleries, concert halls and cathedrals to discover what leadership looks like at its best. The Dark Side of the Moon turns the same light around - the same paintings, the same case studies, the same five-hundred-year conversation about power and vision - to face the wall where the failures hang.
This is not a book of villains. It is a book of leaders who had every strength the first book celebrated, and still got it wrong - through distortion, through fracture, through dissonance, through simple, human blindness.
Across art, science, sport and the written word, The Dark Side of the Moon gathers the moments when vision curdled into hubris, courage into recklessness, and self-belief into blindness:
Paintings and sculptures that show leadership failing in full view
Engineering and scientific miscalculations - from Piltdown Man to the Challenger disaster
Sporting scandals where the line between competitive edge and outright cheating disappeared
Songs, poems and speeches written by those who witnessed leadership fail in real time
>Same light. Different angle. Follow the loop - it leads back to you.