How can you defend yourself as a target of a toxic leader? In the early 1800s Voltaire Cousteau, an obscure French author, penned an essay on how to survive swimming with sharks, apparently for the benefit of sponge...
In a previous post, I presented toxic leaders exist because the organizational culture tolerates and enables them. If that is the case, then detoxing the toxic leader involves much more than simple corrective action, performance counseling, or dismissal. As...
In their book, Toxic Workplace: Toxic Personalities and their Systems of Power, Kusy and Holloway clearly present toxic personalities exist in organizations because the culture of the organization tolerates and enables them.[i] Similar to the conditions of a garden...
I am often asked, “How do toxic leaders become so powerful? Everyone knows how abusive they are. How do they get away with it?” Truly, toxic leaders have a detrimental effect on the members of an organization –...
