Bad Leadership

There is a genre in academic leadership writing that automatically correlates leadership with positive outcomes, to the point where anything deleterious is relegated to something other than leadership: the land of tyrants, psychopaths, and the like – the so-called ‘Hitler problem’. But this is to deny three crucial aspects of leadership: one, we cannot simply judge the morality of leaders by our own standards; two, many very successful leaders have indeed been tyrants; and three, all leaders embody a wide range of behaviors and actions that necessarily lead to good and less good outcomes. This book provides a thorough review… show more.