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The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians-and How We Can Survive Them
Jean Lipman-Blumen
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Description for The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians-and How We Can Survive Them
Paperback. A book on leadership that explains why so many followers not only tolerate bad leaders but in many cases actually prefer them. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFX; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 173 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464.
Toxic leaders, both political, like Slobodan Milosevic, and corporate, like Enron's Ken Lay, have always been with us, and many books have been written to explain what makes them tick. Here leadership scholar Jean Lipman-Blumen explains what makes the followers tick, exploring why people will tolerate-and remain loyal to-leaders who are destructive to their organizations, their employees, or their nations. 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 ... Read more
Toxic leaders, both political, like Slobodan Milosevic, and corporate, like Enron's Ken Lay, have always been with us, and many books have been written to explain what makes them tick. Here leadership scholar Jean Lipman-Blumen explains what makes the followers tick, exploring why people will tolerate-and remain loyal to-leaders who are destructive to their organizations, their employees, or their nations. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
318
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195312003
SKU
V9780195312003
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99-31
About Jean Lipman-Blumen
Jean Lipman-Blumen is Professor of Public Policy and of Organizational Behavior at Claremont Graduate University, California and a co-founding director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership. Her books include the award-winning Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization and Connective Leadership: Managing in a Changing World, which was nominated for a Pulitzer ... Read more
Reviews for The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians-and How We Can Survive Them
In our search for leaders, our appraisal of leaders, Jean Lipman-Blumen provides us with a powerful tool to identify, understand and analyze the toxic leader as she gives us fresh observations on our own journey to leadership. -Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute The Allure of Toxic Leaders provides remarkable insights into why so many destructive leaders ... Read more