Leadership from Bad to Worse
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-775927-1 (ISBN)
Leadership from Bad to Worse is about how leadership that is bad, invariably, inexorably, gets worse--unless it is somehow, by someone or something, stopped or slowed. The process of going from bad to worse tends to be steady, as opposed to hasty. But once bad burrows in, it digs in. It digs in deeper and then deeper, making it difficult finally to extract or excise without getting rid of whoever and whatever is involved.
This work draws on four cases of bad leadership--two in political leadership, two in business leadership--to show how it goes from bad to worse. Kellerman finds that bad leadership and bad followership go through four phases of development: 1) Onward and Upward; 2) Followers Join In; 3) Leaders Start In; and 4) Bad to Worse.
These findings correctly suggest that the book, in addition to being of theoretical interest, is of practical import. It is intended, deliberately, to serve as an early warning system. By breaking bad leadership and followership into phases--each more ominous and ultimately dangerous than the one preceding--their progression will be easier to predict and detect. And easier, therefore, to slow or, preferably, to stop before they turn toxic.
Bad leadership is a social disease. But unlike diseases that are physical or psychological, it remains at the margins of our collective concerns. Leadership from Bad to Worse is, then, a corrective. Knowing that bad leadership can be checked before it corrupts is knowing that bad and then worse can be, if not completely precluded, then sometimes short-circuited.
Barbara Kellerman was Founding Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School; the School's James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Leadership; and a member of the Harvard faculty for over twenty years. She is currently a Fellow at the Center. Kellerman has held professorships at Fordham, Tufts, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Washington, Uppsala, and Christopher Newport Universities, as well as at Dartmouth and its Tuck School of Business. Kellerman is author and editor of twenty books on leadership/followership.
Prologue - The Present
Part I - Looking In
Chapter 1: Democracy in Decline and Capitalism in Question
Chapter 2: Followership and Leadership in the 21st Century
Chapter 3: Making Meaning of Being Bad
Chapter 4: The Stages of Development
Part II - Digging In
Chapter 5: Martin Winterkorn - CEO of Volkswagen
Chapter 6: Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of Turkey
Chapter 7: Elizabeth Holmes - CEO of Theranos
Chapter 8: Xi Jinping - President of China
Part III - Closing In
Chapter 9: Phase I - Onward and Upward
Chapter 10: Phase II - Followers Join In
Chapter 11: Phase III - Leaders Start In
Chapter 12: Phase IV - From Bad to Worse
Epilogue - The Future
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 476 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-775927-0 / 0197759270 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-775927-1 / 9780197759271 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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