Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good)
by Barbara Kellerman
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Author: Barbara KellermanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09
ISBN: 1591391660
Number of pages: 282
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
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Book Review: Every Christian Should Read
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a must for people working in Christian organizations and for laypeople in churches. There is bad leadership in the church and it often looks a lot like good leadership. Kellerman writes about the "recent revelations of wrongdoing by leaders of the Roman Catholic Church . . . that was so abhorrent it makes us all ill." She continues: "the idea that some leaders and some followers are bad, and that they might have something in common with good leaders and followers, has not fully penetrated the conversation or the curriculum" [of leadership training]. Her book is aptly titled for my situation ("My Calvin Seminary Story") where poor leadership derailed my career.
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Summary of Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good)
A provocative departure from conventional thinking, Bad Leadership compels us to see leadership in its entiretyKellerman argues that the dark side of leadership-from rigidity and callousness to corruption and cruelty-is not an aberration. Rather bad leadership is as ubiquitous as it is insidious-and so must be more carefully examined and better understood.
Drawing on high-profile contemporary examples-from Mary Meeker to David Koresh, Bill Clinton to Radovan Karadzic, Al Dunlap to Leona Helmsley-Kellerman explores seven primary types of bad leadership and dissects why and how leaders cross the line from good to bad. The book also illuminates the critical role of followers, revealing how they collaborate in, and sometimes even cause, bad leadership.
Daring and counterintuitive, Bad Leadership makes clear that we need to face the dark side in order to become better leaders and followers ourselves.
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