BAD LEADERSHIP: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters
Barbara Kellerman, . . Harvard Business School, $26.95 (282pp) ISBN 978-1-59139-166-1
"How," asks Kellerman, "will we ever stop what we refuse to see and study?" Research director of the Center for Public Leadership and lecturer in public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Kellerman focuses in opening chapters on the nature of leadership, the rise of a "leadership industry," the complicit role of followers, the definition of bad leadership and reasons for its occurrence. Kellerman's style combines the direct prose of the boardroom with the erudition of the classroom; relevant citations abound, from Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes to
Reviewed on: 08/30/2004
Genre: Nonfiction