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Two top drivers or champions in many sports face the same problems. The extreme competitive environment often forces the company and its officials to choose between the two and this is what happened between Hamilton and Alfonso.
But we do see a hole in Dennis' leadership because it is the job of a leader to make sure his people get along and even if they don't, it should be minimized in order to avoid damaging conflicts. Any conflict between one company's employees can hurt the company more than it hurts the employees themselves. Dennis could not possibly fail to see what was going on and if he chose to ignore it, then it puts a big question mark on his abilities as a leader.
Conflict management is one of the keys to success in leadership and we see that Dennis does not appear to have made use of this skill on purpose. We say on purpose because it is foolish to imagine that he couldn't see the squabble between the two drivers but since he himself may be favoring one driver over the other. It is very strange that a leader of his caliber would fail to treat his drivers equally and fairly. Even though he always claimed that he treated all drivers equally, this was hardly the case when at the end of Chinese Grand Prix, Dennis said: "We weren't racing Kimi, we were basically racing Fernando."...
The Times felt that such comments "made a non-sense of his claims to be treating his drivers equitably in the World Championship run-in"[2].
Dennis may have favored Alonso over others because of his contributions to the company. Dennis had once admitted that it was Alonso's experience that had "[prevented] an F1 team from going down [time wasting] technical cul-de-sacs - and as a result, car-developmental progress becomes more linear."
Dennis did not however capitalize on Alonso's positive contributions for too long and had a falling out with the driver in 2007. It is correct to say then that while Dennis has been very successful; his leadership leaves something to be desired. For one, he needs to learn conflict management and also needs to work on his people management skills. Dennis should also try to build his integrity and try to restore the reputation of his company if he still cares about McLaren.
References will learn from Mistake" the Times UK. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article2609933.ece
Slip of the tongue by Ron Dennis" Retrieved online 3rd September 2008 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article2617378.ece
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