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The Wall Street Journal, 26 October, 2004
"Ms. Kellerman’s volume is elegantly written and a pleasure to read…"
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A provocative departure from conventional thinking, Bad Leadership compels us to see leadership in its entirety
Kellerman 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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WHEN HE WAS INSTALLED as president of Harvard University in October 2001, Lawrence Summers delivered a speech in which he declared that "in this new century, nothing will matter more than the education of future leaders and the development of new ideas." Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
WHEN HE WAS INSTALLED as president of Harvard University in October 2001, Lawrence Summers delivered a speech in which he declared that "in this new century, nothing will matter more than the education of future leaders and the development of new ideas." Read the first page
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This review is from: Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good) (Hardcover)
Very simply an outstanding book that outlines the difference between companies that make it and those that out to be avoided like the plague. It should be made an International Law to black list all such failing companies because of the great damage they inflict on employees that suffer because of their failing leadership.It should be part of the UN Human Rights Charter.
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3.4 out of 5 stars (18 customer reviews) 42 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
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A View From the Dark Side,
By John Matlock "Gunny" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good) (Hardcover)
We live in a time where the news is filled with countries, corporations, and other organizations that are failing to perform as they should. Ms. Kellerman has analyzed several of these and identified fundamental seven types of leadership that are prone to failure.
INCOMPETENT: The leader and at least some followers lack the will or skill to sustain effective action. RIGID: The leader and at least some of his followers are stiff, unyielding, and unwilling to adapt to new ideas, new information or changing times. Intemperate: The leader lacks self-control and is aided and abetted by followers who do not intervene. CaALLOUS: The leader is uncaring or unkind, he ignores or discounts the needs of the rest of the organization. CORRUPT: These people lie, cheat, or steal. They put self interest above all else. INSULAR: They disregard or at least minimize the health and welfare of those outside the small center group. EVIL: Some leaders and at least some followers commit atrocities. In each of these catagories, she identifies leaders that illustrate her point. This leads to an understanding of why such bad leadership is harmful to the organization, and if the organization is the political leadership of a country, it is bad for the world. 45 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
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Bad Authorship,
By Dr Cathy Goodwin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good) (Hardcover)
It's not clear what we're supposed to learn from this book. As other reviewers have observed, Kellerman identifies five categories of bad leadership -- but they're ad hoc, arbitrarily derived groupings. Therefore we can't identify systematic causes of bad leadership, which would lead to meaningful prescriptions.
Kellerman uses a broad definition of leadership that encompasses corporate leaders appointed by a board, elected leaders, founders of companies (like Martha Stewart), and self-appointed crazies like Jim Jones. Can we really load all these forms into one category -- and still come up with meaningful conclusions? As others have noted, Kellerman's bias raises questions about credibility. She faults Bill Clinton for lack of leadership in three separate arenas -- more than any other "leader" in the book. Yet Clinton's health care "failure" can be partly attributed to a huge spending campaign by insurance companies, which she does not mention. His lack of action in Rwanda pales next to foreign policies by leaders who extended wars for political reason and ... well' we won't even go there. As for the Lewinsky affair, Kellerman writes (p 35) that "tolerance for moral fallibility, even if evident only behind closed doors, has been low." Really? Many American leaders (JFK, LBJ, and others) have had rather varied experiences behind closed doors. Some countries remain baffled by the American concern with our leaders' "moral fallibility." And is Confucius really the appropriate source to cite when discussing modern leaders and their morals? Why not a historian or political scientist? On page 43, Kellerman refers to Martha Stewart's "charges stemming from insider trading," noting that Stewart can be "mean." Stewart's legal position has been extremely controversial. Several legal scholars have questioned the decision to charge Stewart with lying to federal officials even when she was innocent of the insider trading charges. And where does Kellerman learn about Stewart's leadership style? The references cite popular trade books including an "unauthorized autobiography." Ironically, one of Kellerman's prescriptions for dealing with "bad leadership" includes "Develop your own sources of information." That's a good idea for authors, too. Other prescriptions are vague, such as "ensure punishment fits the crime." Who's to decide what fits the crime? Does the public gain from incarcerating a white collar criminal? And who decides what's a crime in the first place? Many reports of misconduct sound like horror stories -- but often the laws are ambiguous and enforcement becomes a showcase for a particular government agency. "Good" and "bad" aren't always easy to identify and I'm not convinced these simplistic dichotomies are the most useful for education, policy, and yes, even leadership. A book published by HBS press should embody more scholarship and less hype. 19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Is this "Bad Leadership" or just "Bad Writing"?,
By Douglas Daly - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good) (Hardcover)
"Bad Leadership" lists 7 characteristics of bad leadership and gives examples of each. Some examples don't clearly reflect the bad quality being highlighted (e.g. the IOC chairman mentioned as incompetant seems more corrupt and insular). The 7-10 page descriptions of each bad leader are interesting, but rather than focusing on the leadership flaws/failings, the author merely gives a "Reader's Digest" summary of each leader.
However, the worst criticism I have for the book is its extreme redundancy. Every chapter describes the "bad followership" involved, which can be summarized as "Don't follow bad leaders". The author also spends many pages discussing how difficult it is writing such a book. I hope someone else writes a good book on bad leadership/bad followership, as I find this topic very intriguing. Unfortunately, there seems very little insightful thinking involved in this book, and the fact that this was allowed to be published in this state is a perfect example of "Bad Followership". |
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