Chapter 4 Leadership The dark triad – personality and the toxic individual
Introduction
An ancient saying is ‘the fish rots from the head down’ and there have been many leaders in history (such as Hitler, Mao and Stalin) who could claim to have had devastating effects on their countries. What is it about such individuals that they can wreak such havoc and why have they been able to get away with it, at least for the most part and for a time? In this chapter we explore something of that pathology and how it can become so destructive. Our focus is on organisations rather than nations, but many of the same characteristics of national leaders are apparent at the level of smaller social groupings. For the most part, ...
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