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The Allure of Toxic Leaders
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Description
Why do we knowingly follow, seldom unseat, frequently prefer, and sometimes even create toxic leaders? Lipman-Blumen argues that these leaders appeal to our deepest needs, playing on our anxieties and fears, on our yearnings for security, high self-esteem, and significance, and on our desire for noble enterprises and immortality. The author explores how psychological needs--such as the desire to be at the heart of the action, to be an insider--can often make us susceptible to toxic leaders. She describes how followers inadvertently keep themselves in line by a set of insidious control myths that they internalize. In addition, outside forces--such as economic depressions, political upheavals, or a crisis in the company--can increase our anxiety and our longing for charismatic leaders. Equally important, Lipman-Blumen shows how followers, mired in the swamp of toxic leadership, can learn critical lessons for the future and survive in the meantime. She discusses how to confront, reform, undermine, blow the whistle on, or oust a toxic leader. And she suggests how we can diminish our need for strong leaders, identify "reluctant leaders" among competent followers, and even nurture the leader within ourselves.
Toxic leaders first charm, but then manipulate, mistreat, weaken, and ultimately devastate their followers. The Allure of Toxic Leaders tells us how to recognize these leaders and identify the germ of toxicity within their "noble" visions before it's too late.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 318
- Release Date:
- 2006-10-01
- Publication Date:
- 2006-10-01
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0195312007
- ISBN13:
- 9780195312003
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 485 g
- Height:
- 156 cm
- Width:
- 234 cm
- Thickness:
- 18 cm
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