Bad leadership : what it is, how it happens, why it matters / Barbara Kellerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellerman, Barbara.

Contributor:

Elizabeth Kelsey Memorial Fund.

Series:

Leadership for the common good

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Decision making.

Personality and occupation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 282 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard Business School Press, [2004]

Summary:

In a provocative departure from conventional thinking about corrupt leaders, this study explores seven primary types of bad leadership and dissects how and why leaders cross the line from good to bad.

Contents:

Webs of significance

Claiming the bad side

Reasons for being bad

Making meaning of being bad

Incompetent : Juan Antonio Samaranch, Abdurrahman Wahid, Jill Barad

Rigid : Mary Meeker, Robert Haas, Sumner Redstone, Vladimir Putin

Intemperate : Marion Barry, Jr., Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, James Bakker and Henry Lyons, William Bennett

Callous : Al Dunlap, Rudolph Giuliani, Leona Helmsley, Howell Raines

Corrupt : William Aramony, Vincent (Buddy) Cianci, Jr., Mario Villanueva, Andrew Fastow

Insular : Bill Clinton, Lee Raymond, James W. Johnston

Evil : Radovan Karadzic, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Jim Jones and David Koresh

Costs and benefits

Comments and corrections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-270) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Kelsey Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1591391660

OCLC:

55700864