Bad leadership in both business and politics is all too common. Yet even when it is clear that leadership is poor, organizations struggle to change it. In Leadership from Bad to Worse, one of the nation's leading leadership scholars looks at bad leadership across a range of organizations and details how and why it inexorably gets worse--and offers pathways for arresting these downward spirals.
This book points to everyone responsible for Donald Trump's tragic mismanagement of the pandemic. Blame lies not entirely or even largely with the president, but with subordinates willing to do his bidding even as it became apparent his leadership was fatally flawed.
Academic research on the psychology of leadership is presented in jargon-free language to highlight the traits, behaviours, and motivations of leaders who lust. This book outlines what lust is: how, where, and when it is manifested in leaders particularly, and what lessons can be learned by leaders and followers alike.
In Professionalizing Leadership, leadership scholar Barbara Kellerman lays out a plan to remedy the field's vagueness by advocating testing, certification, and regulation that befit a true profession. This book illuminates the pitfalls and potential of leadership education, and outlines a logical sequence for professionalizing the field.
Hard Times fills a gap in our conversation about leadership by focusing on the context within which leadership takes place. Written as a checklist, it introduces readers to what they need to know in order to lead wisely and well in 21st Century America.
From one of the pioneers in the field of leadership studies comes a provocative reassessment of how people lead in the digital age: in The End of Leadership, Barbara Kellerman reveals a new way of thinking about leadership- and followership-in the twenty-first century.
Indispensable advice for business professionals--from history's wisest leaders
The book shifts the focus from leaders to the crucial roles of followers in various contexts, highlighting their growing importance in leadership dynamics. Barbara Kellerman categorizes followers into five types: Isolates, Bystanders, Participants, Activists, and Diehards, exploring their interactions with leaders and one another. Through compelling examples from diverse settings, she emphasizes that followers, often overlooked, wield significant influence and are becoming bolder in their actions. This perspective is essential for understanding modern leadership and the interplay of power.
Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way. This groundbreaking volume offers readers an informed analysis of the state of women and leadership and offers the most informed and current thinking on · The perils of stereotypes · The importance of leadership style · Gender differences in the decision to seek leadership roles · Lessons from women leaders · “Opt out” patterns and the need for flexible career paths · Global inequalities and initiatives · Strategies that get women to the top Women and Leadership is indispensable for understanding recent progress toward equal opportunity and the challenges that remain.
Bad leadership is as ubiquitous as it is insidious - and so must be more carefully examined and better understood. Drawing on contemporary examples - from Mary Meeker to David Koresh, Bill Clinton to Radovan Karadzic - this book explores seven primary types of bad leadership and dissects why and how leaders cross the line from good to bad.
