Transforming toxic leaders / Alan Goldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Executives--Psychology.

Executive ability.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books/Stanford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues that toxic leadership presents organizations with opportunities for positive transformation, innovation, growth, and development. The author offers a unique 'Model of Leader Detoxification' as a central blueprint for successfully managing toxic leaders and growing healthier, visionary companies.

Contents:

Contents; Extended Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Preview: A Blueprint For Transforming Toxic Leaders; 1. Demagogue To Dialogue; 2. Emotional Deposits And Withdrawals; 3. Life-and-Death Leadership; 4. Post-Traumatic Leadership: Negative Emotional Contagion and the High-Toxicity Organization; 5. Reinventing the Toxic Leader: Negotiating Through Upper Echelon Dissonance and Resistance; 6. Leader Detoxification: Strategies for Transforming Toxic Leaders and Organizations; 7. Transforming Toxicity into Opportunity: From Deficits to Abundance; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-149) and index.

ISBN:

9780804772570

0804772576

OCLC:

589189324