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Toxic Leaders - When Organizations Go Bad (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,519
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Toxic Leaders - When Organizations Go Bad (Hardcover): Marcia L Whicker

Toxic Leaders - When Organizations Go Bad (Hardcover)

Marcia L Whicker

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Drawing on her extensive experience and research in various types of organizations-business, political, even religious organizations-Dr. Whicker looks closely at three distinct types of leaders which she categorizes as trustworthy, transitional, and toxic leaders. In a clear and readable style she describes leadership subtypes for transitional and toxic types: the absentee leaders, the busybodies, controllers, enforcers, streetfighters, and the bullies, all of whom are dangerous to their organizations and are directly responsible in many cases for an organization's decline. Whicker makes clear, however, that there are ways to protect oneself from such leaders, and shows exactly what these strategies are. A compelling, anecdotal, authoritative analysis for anyone in any organization who has ever wondered why did the boss do that - and why to "me"?

As Dr. Whicker sees it, "trustworthy leaders" are good, moral, green light leaders. They can trusted to put the goals of the organization and the well-being of their followers first. Organizations with trustworthy leaders at the helm have a green light to advance in productivity, growth, and progress. Three types of trustworthy leaders are consensus builders, team leaders, and commanders. "Transitional leaders" are self-absorbed, egotistical, yellow light leaders. They are focused on the approval of others and concerned with their personal role as leaders. Organizations headed by transitional leaders have a cautionary yellow light to growth, and lurch along at the mercy of the ebb and flow of external currents and trends. Three types of transitional leaders are absentee leaders, busybodies, and controllers. "Toxic leaders" are maladjusted, malcontent, and often malevolent and malicious. They succeed by tearing others down. They glory in turf protection, fighting, and controlling others rather than uplifting followers. They are red light leaders who destroy productivity and apply brakes to organizational progress. They have a deep-seated but well-disguised sense of personal inadequacy, selfish values, and cleverness at concealing deceit. Three types of toxic leaders are enforcers, streetfighters, and bullies. This book gives the reader strategies for surviving transitional and toxic leaders and for restoring organizational health.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 1996
First published: April 1996
Authors: Marcia L Whicker
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 978-0-89930-998-9
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > General
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LSN: 0-89930-998-4
Barcode: 9780899309989

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