Bad Leadership

In 2004, an American author, Barbara Kellerman, published a book called "Bad leadership: what it is, how it happens, why it matters" which suggests that the toxicity of lead can be analyzed in seven different types are "incompetent" can not generate positive changes, the "rigid" it is unable to adapt to new ideas, "intemperate" who lost in a continuous self with increased risks, the "callous" that ignores the needs and desires the other the "corrupted" who lies and steals, the "isolated" that neglects the welfare of those outside their group but that their actions depend on finally, the "evil" committed to using the horrors of physical and psychological pain as an instrument of power.

When one examines some of the most toxic leaders who come in our history, we can identify with names, some of these seven types, which in many cases, are adding these features to generate a kind of monster power and reaching out only produce violence victims in response to a state of things or even the self-processes that, once again looking for the social balance, they must overcome their personalities.

1. Contaminantes inefficiency. Here are many dictators who do not have sufficient preparation or intelligence to generate positive changes to the exercise of his power. Van generating pollution on leaders and followers that nothing worthwhile by the "learned hopelessness" which copies the ineffectiveness and the punishment of positive efforts. Descriptions of typical small dictators that will exacerbate political and social problems. Duvalier, the Papa Doc of Haiti, is perhaps the most accurate portrait of such a toxic political leadership. (Lipman-Blumen, 16)

2. Contaminantes stiffness. Which will contaminate stiffness in the hands of the possibility of increasing hatred of the processes in a given population, spreading and deepening the processes of injustice that have been made in the history of a population, exacerbating the process of revenge by maintenance of resentment. Able to divide the population into two camps with different stress, culpabilzándolo a segment of the misfortunes and sorrows of others. Hitler and almost all hard dictators of the twentieth century have used this momentum to increase its power.

3. Contaminants intemperance. Intolerance as a behavioral norm that does not accept to share with those differences which binds non-flexible sound, generating a gross intransigence segregates, separates, all those that do not share, are objects of their wrath crisis, saying all the outrage against those who are weak, that is, minorities who are excluded. A demonstration of this behavior can be found with which he, for many decades, Fidel Castro. (Williams, 18)

4. Contaminantes selfish. Conduct that does not let others have the resources and benefits, earnings and assets they do have is a characteristic of some leaders and pollutants, thus, shows the lack of generating equipment and interdependent that only seeking mastery over legalizing the authority and coercion through ostentation and selective use of force. You can locate the personality and acting as a dictator who was Saddam Hussein.

5. Contaminantes corruption. This item appears very frequently in all pollutants as leadership ...