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The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership - A Critical Perspective (Paperback, New)
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The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership - A Critical Perspective (Paperback, New)
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Most research into leadership has presented leaders as heroic,
charismatic and transformational 'visionaries'. The leader, whether
in business, politics or any other field, is the most important
factor in determining whether organizations succeed or fail.
Indeed, despite the fundamental mistakes which have, arguably,
directly led to global economic recession, it is often still taken
for granted that transformational leadership is a good thing, and
that leaders should have much more power than followers to decide
what needs to be done. The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership
confronts this orthodoxy by illustrating how such approaches can
encourage narcissism, megalomania and poor decision-making on the
part of leaders, at great expense to those organizations they are
there to serve. Written in a lively and engaging style, the book
uses a number of case studies to illustrate the perils of
transformational leadership, from the Jonestown tragedy in 1978
when over 900 people were either murdered or committed suicide at
the urging of their leader, to an analysis of how banking
executives tried to explain away their role in the 2008 financial
crisis This provocative and hugely important book offers a rare
critical perspective in the field of leadership studies. Concluding
with a new approach that offers an alternative to the dominant
transformational model, The Dark Side of Transformational
Leadership will be an invaluable text for academics interested in
leadership, students on leadership courses requiring a more
critical perspective, and anyone concerned with how people lead
people, and the lessons we can learn.
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