Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters

摘要: How is Saddam Hussein like Tony Blair? Or Kenneth Lay Lou Gerstner? Answer: They are, or were, leaders. Many would argue that tyrants, corrupt CEOs, and other abusers of power authority are not leaders at all--at least as the word currently used. But, according to Barbara Kellerman, this assumption dangerously naive. A provocative departure from conventional thinking, Bad Leadership compels us see leadership in its entirety. Kellerman argues dark side leadership--from rigidity callousness corruption cruelty--is an aberration. Rather, bad ubiquitous it insidious--and so must be more carefully examined better understood. Drawing on high-profile, contemporary examples--from Mary Meeker David Koresh, Bill Clinton Radovan Karadzic, Al Dunlap Leona Helmsley--Kellerman explores seven primary types dissects why how cross line good bad. The book also illuminates critical role followers, revealing they collaborate with, sometimes even cause, leadership. Daring counterintuitive, makes clear we need face become followers ourselves. research director Center for Public a lecturer public policy Kennedy School Government, Harvard University.