Destructive leaders and dysfunctional organizations : a therapeutic approach /

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Author / Creator:Goldman, Alan.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description:xix, 218 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8209617
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ISBN:9780521888806 (hbk.)
0521888808 (hbk.)
9780521717342 (pbk.)
0521717345 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-209) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: leaders and organizations in search of treatment
  • 1. Hubris and narcissism: the dark underbelly of leadership
  • 2. The enigma of an unintentionally toxic leader: an emotionally turbulent, destructive and impulsive workplace
  • 3. The narcissistic leader: world-renowned and quite arrogant
  • 4. Leader sabotage and the dysfunctional organization: the fish rots from the head down
  • 5. The obsessive compulsive leader: a manager's mandate for perfection or destruction
  • 6. The borderline leader: when brilliance and psychopathology coexist
  • 7. Trouble at the top: high-toxicity implications of a leader with antisocial personality disorder
  • 8. Histrionic leadership: the allure of the toxic leader in a volatile industry
  • 9. The outer limits of toxic organization behavior: corporate trauma in the form of disturbed leadership
  • 10. Destructive leaders and dysfunctional organizations: tearing downs the walls of professional greed, hubris, toxic genius and psychopathology
  • References
  • Index