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This book is unlike any other management book on the market. In a crowded market place full of well-intentioned books with advice and guidance on how to be a better leader, The Terrible Leader goes completely against the grain. In this irreverent, funny, challenging and at times caustic look at leadership, Dan White creates the anti-leader the worst possible manager you could imagine and encounter in the workplace! This is the manager whose style is autocratic, who makes employees miserable every day, who abuses his power, who enjoys tribunals, and who thrives in a blame culture. Creating this worst-case scenario of leadership is in fact not so difficult (and is often clearer than the right thing). But it is by looking at the dark side which then allows us to examine the opposite of Terrible with greater clarity, to gain insight into the Sensible. If you want to be a great leader, first study the terrible leader and learn.
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Leadership doesn’t have to be elegant in execution or surface appearance, moreover, it needs to be elegant in concept and end-goal. When selling a product, an idea, a service or just yourself, the need to influence and engage in a more connected marketplace is critical to the expected success. Some of our current leaders have supposed power and success, but will they be remembered?
Clegg: Too formulaic.
Sugar: Halts creativity through aggression.
Berlusconi: Uselessly controversial and self-indulgent.
In the Terrible Leader we take leadership’s core principles, such as motivation and engagement, and turn them on their head. By looking at the worst examples from history we gain a unique insight in how we can become great today. Once we know the mistakes made by others, we can improve our own skills far quicker than any ‘trial and error’ method.
Personally, I think leadership is flawed. Hierarchical models of government, business and even friendship never really lead to egalitarian ends.
I would say the same but this is not always true… another thing: what would people do if you won 3 million usd?
I agree, there is always this nagging idealist in my head, I don’t think I would give all of my $3 million usd to charity!
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