{"product_id":"the-allure-of-toxic-leaders-why-we-follow-destructive-bosses-and-corrupt-politicians-and-how-we-can-survive-them-paperback","title":"The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians--And How We Can Survive Them - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Lipman-Blumen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToxic leaders, both political, like Slobodan Milosevic, and corporate, like Enron's Ken Lay, have always been with us, and many books have been written to explain what makes them tick. Here leadership scholar Jean Lipman-Blumen explains what makes the \u003cem\u003efollowers\u003c\/em\u003e tick, exploring why people will tolerate--and remain loyal to--leaders who are destructive to their organizations, their employees, or their nations.\u003cbr\u003e Why do we knowingly follow, seldom unseat, frequently prefer, and sometimes even create toxic leaders? Lipman-Blumen argues that these leaders appeal to our deepest needs, playing on our anxieties and fears, on our yearnings for security, high self-esteem, and significance, and on our desire for noble enterprises and immortality. She also explores how followers inadvertently keep themselves in line by a set of insidious control myths that they internalize. For example, the belief that the leader must necessarily be in a position to \"know more\" than the followers often stills their objections. In addition, outside forces--such as economic depressions, political upheavals, or a crisis in a company--can increase our anxiety and our longing for charismatic leaders. Lipman-Blumen shows how followers can learn critical lessons for the future and survive in the meantime. She discusses how to confront, reform, undermine, blow the whistle on, or oust a toxic leader. And she suggests how we can diminish our need for strong leaders, identify \"reluctant leaders\" among competent followers, and even nurture the leader within ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e Toxic leaders charm, manipulate, mistreat, weaken, and ultimately devastate their followers. \u003cem\u003eThe Allure of Toxic Leaders\u003c\/em\u003e tells us how to recognize these leaders before it's too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJean Lipman-Blumen\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Public Policy and of Organizational Behavior at Claremont Graduate University, California and a co-founding director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership. Her books include the award-winning \u003cem\u003eHot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConnective Leadership: Managing in a Changing World\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.28 x 6.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256275984486,"sku":"9780195312003","price":30.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/A9roIGiV_I9780195312003.webp?v=1773708630","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-allure-of-toxic-leaders-why-we-follow-destructive-bosses-and-corrupt-politicians-and-how-we-can-survive-them-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}