Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: leaders and organizations in search of treatment
- 1 Hubris and narcissism: the dark underbelly of leadership
- 2 The enigma of an unintentionally toxic leader: an emotionally turbulent, destructive and impulsive workplace
- 3 The narcissistic leader: world-renowned and quite arrogant
- 4 Leader sabotage and the dysfunctional organization: the fish rots from the head down
- 5 The obsessive compulsive leader: a manager's mandate for perfection or destruction
- 6 The borderline leader: when brilliance and psychopathology coexist
- 7 Trouble at the top: high-toxicity implications of a leader with antisocial personality disorder
- 8 Histrionic leadership: the allure of the toxic leader in a volatile industry
- 9 The outer limits of toxic organizational behavior: corporate trauma in the form of disturbed leadership
- 10 Destructive leaders and dysfunctional organizations: tearing downs the walls of professional greed, hubris, toxic genius and psychopathology
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: leaders and organizations in search of treatment
- 1 Hubris and narcissism: the dark underbelly of leadership
- 2 The enigma of an unintentionally toxic leader: an emotionally turbulent, destructive and impulsive workplace
- 3 The narcissistic leader: world-renowned and quite arrogant
- 4 Leader sabotage and the dysfunctional organization: the fish rots from the head down
- 5 The obsessive compulsive leader: a manager's mandate for perfection or destruction
- 6 The borderline leader: when brilliance and psychopathology coexist
- 7 Trouble at the top: high-toxicity implications of a leader with antisocial personality disorder
- 8 Histrionic leadership: the allure of the toxic leader in a volatile industry
- 9 The outer limits of toxic organizational behavior: corporate trauma in the form of disturbed leadership
- 10 Destructive leaders and dysfunctional organizations: tearing downs the walls of professional greed, hubris, toxic genius and psychopathology
- References
- Index
Summary
Destructive Leaders and Dysfunctional Organizations: A Therapeutic Approach is the result of a journey that has led me to graduate school, research, writing, and the life of a professor and consultant. As a professor I have always been fascinated by the stories of movers and shakers. In this book I bring the narratives and human dramas of leaders and companies front and center stage. From behind closed doors I have heard swearing and cussing, prayers, confessionals, and self-disclosures that serve up the intricacies and complexities of leadership. As an external coach who is immersed with the client I strive to fully enter the organizational culture. I am committed to first and foremost understanding how a leader lives in her world. From the vantage point of the consultant-as-an-anthropologist I strive to hear what they hear, see what they see, think what they think and feel what they feel. Much like Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist, I must enter the lived world and community en route to partaking in genuine conversations and observing real phenomena. Each chapter represents engagement in another professional and corporate culture ranging from engineering, heart surgery, and real estate development, to high couture fashion and sports and athletic wear.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I trust that the narratives and dramas that unfold in these pages will sufficiently usher you into the trials, struggles and toxicity of extraordinary leaders and their companies.
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- Destructive Leaders and Dysfunctional OrganizationsA Therapeutic Approach, pp. xvii - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009