Bad Leadership

Kellerman argues that the dark side of leadershipfrom rigidity and callousness to corruption and crueltyis not an aberration. Rather bad leadership is as ubiquitous as it is insidiousand so must be more carefully examined and better understood.

Drawing on high-profile contemporary examplesfrom Mary Meeker to David Koresh, Bill Clinton to Radovan Karadzic, Al Dunlap to Leona HelmsleyKellerman explores seven primary types of bad leadership and dissects why and how leaders cross the line from good to bad. The book also illuminates the critical role of followers, revealing how they collaborate in, and sometimes even cause, bad leadership.

Daring and counterintuitive, Bad Leadership makes clear that we need to face the dark side in order to become better leaders and followers ourselves.