The Enablers - How Team Trump Flunked the Pandemic and Failed America

This is a story about complicity - about Trump's supporters being equally responsible for his tragic mismanagement of the pandemic.

List of contents

Part I. Trump's Tribe: 1. Base; 2. Party; 3. Administration; 4. Inner Circle; Part II. Virus Crisis: 5. Prequel to the Pandemic; 6. Sequence of the Pandemic; 7. Science of the Pandemic; 8. Politics of the Pandemic; Part III. Trump's Team: 9. Vice President, Cabinet; 10. Senior Advisors; 11. Senators, Governors, Media; 12. Medical Experts; Epilogue: Enabler Effect.

About the author

Barbara Kellerman was founding Executive Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership and a member of the Kennedy School faculty for over twenty years. She is author, co-author, and editor of many books on leadership and followership, including Leaders Who Lust, Followership, Bad Leadership, The End of Leadership, and Professionalizing Leadership.

Summary

This book points to everyone responsible for Donald Trump's tragic mismanagement of the pandemic. Blame lies not entirely or even largely with the president, but with subordinates willing to do his bidding even as it became apparent his leadership was fatally flawed.

Additional text

An eye-opening look at how bad leaders – one in particular – rely on bad followers.' Kirkus

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Kellerman, Barbara (Harvard University Kellerman, Kellerman Barbara
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108838320
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83832-0
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Political science & theory, Organizational theory & behaviour, Social, group or collective psychology, Public Administration, Political science and theory, Organizational theory and behaviour, Public administration / Public policy