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Overcoming Bad Leadership in Organizations brings together the foremost experts on the dark side of leadership to offer groundbreaking insights to leaders, talent management professionals, and psychologists. The goal is to confront reality head on, to shed the idea that leadership is always good, and in this space increase our understanding of the perils of dysfunctional leadership.
List of contents
- 1. Introduction: Balancing Effective Leadership Against the Dark Side of Leaders
- Ted Hayes and Derek Lusk
- SECTION 1. INTO THE DARKNESS
- 2. Dark Leadership and the Fate of Organizations
- Robert Hogan and Ryne A. Sherman
- 3. How to Define and Measure the Dark Side in Business
- Bradley J. Brummel and Seth A. Osborn
- 4. Bright and Dark Side of Personality: The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Personality Disorders
- Adrian Furnham
- 5. HEXACO Personality: The future of Dark Side Research?
- Beth A. Visser and Liam Doyle
- 6. The Dark and Destructive Side of Leadership: A Behavioral Perspective
- Stale Valvatne Einarsen and Thomas Hol Fosse
- 7. From Freud to a Modern Theory of Dark Side Leadership
- Derek Lusk
- SECTION 2. WHY IT MATTERS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF DARK LEADERSHIP
- 8. The Dark Side and Leader Derailment
- Jean Brittain Leslie
- 9. Authoritarianism: Understanding the Followers of the Dark Side
- P.D. Harms and Karen Landay
- 10. Gender and the Dark Side of Leadership
- Asia A. Eaton and Barbara Nevicka
- 11. Faultlines, Failure, and Fracture: The Dark Side of Team Dynamics
- Dave Winsborough and Reece Akhtar
- 12. How Bad Leaders Impact Organizational Effectiveness
- Ricky W. Griffin, Andrew A. Hanna, Troy A. Smith, and Bradley L. Kirkman
- 13. How to Mitigate Destructive Leadership-Human Resources-Practices that Mitigate Dark Triad Leaders' Destructive Tendencies
- Birgit Schyns, Iris K. Gauglitz, Barbara Wisse, and Astrid Schütz
- SECTION 3: OVERCOMING BAD LEADERSHIP IN THE WORKPLACE
- 14. Assessing the Dark Side: Making Informed Decisions Throughout the Leadership Lifecycle
- Christopher T. Rotolo and David W. Bracken
- 15. Taming the Dark Side and Bringing Out the Light: Identifying and Developing High Potential Leaders
- Robert E. Lewis and Julia Bayless
- 16. Getting Back on Course: A Four-Step Method for Behavior Change for Leader Derailment
- Jonathan Kirschner and Justin P. Zamora
- 17. A Six Step Solution to Overcoming Bad Leadership: Scientific-Based Leadership Development Training
- Denise L. Reyes
- SECTION 4: THE HIDDEN BENEFITS OF THE DARK SIDE
- 18. Leadership and Dark-Side Derailers The Risks and Rewards of Extreme Personalities
- Robert B. Kaiser
- 19. Fearless Dominance-the Upside of Psychopathy?
- Hanna Aileen Genau and Gerhard Blickle
About the author
Derek Lusk is Head of Executive Assessment at AIIR Consulting, where he helps Fortune 500 organizations with succession planning, high-potential identification, and talent analytics. He is a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and frequent speaker on a variety of topics ranging from C-suite leadership to organizational resilience and politics. He is a member of the Society for Consulting Psychology (SCP), Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and on the board of the SIOP Professional Practice Series. He teaches at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
Theodore L. Hayes is a personnel research psychologist near Washington, DC. Hayes has held research and consulting positions in the private and public sectors, and his areas of expertise include leadership assessment and feedback, employee engagement, selection, and organizational research methodology. The author of book chapters and over 25 peer-reviewed articles, Hayes is also an Adjunct Professor at George
Washington University. He serves as an Associate Editor of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.
Summary
Overcoming Bad Leadership in Organizations brings together the foremost experts on the dark side of leadership to offer groundbreaking insights to leaders, talent management professionals, and psychologists. The goal is to confront reality head on, to shed the idea that leadership is always good, and in this space increase our understanding of the perils of dysfunctional leadership.
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Anyone who has ever had a "toxic" boss will probably love this book.
