Overcoming Bad Leadership in Organizations

Derek Lusk is Head of Executive Assessment at AIIR Consulting, where he helps Fortune 500 organizations with succession planning, high-potential identification, and talent analytics. He is a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and frequent speaker on a variety of topics ranging from C-suite leadership to organizational resilience and politics. He is a member of the Society for Consulting Psychology (SCP), Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and on the board of the SIOP Professional Practice Series. He teaches at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Theodore L. Hayes is a personnel research psychologist near Washington, DC. Hayes has held research and consulting positions in the private and public sectors, and his areas of expertise include leadership assessment and feedback, employee engagement, selection, and organizational research methodology. The author of book chapters and over 25 peer-reviewed articles, Hayes is also an Adjunct Professor at GeorgeWashington University. He serves as an Associate Editor of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.

• 1. Introduction: Balancing Effective Leadership Against the Dark Side of LeadersTed Hayes and Derek LuskSECTION 1. INTO THE DARKNESS2. Dark Leadership and the Fate of OrganizationsRobert Hogan and Ryne A. Sherman3. How to Define and Measure the Dark Side in BusinessBradley J. Brummel and Seth A. Osborn4. Bright and Dark Side of Personality: The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Personality DisordersAdrian Furnham5. HEXACO Personality: The future of Dark Side Research?Beth A. Visser and Liam Doyle6. The Dark and Destructive Side of Leadership: A Behavioral PerspectiveStale Valvatne Einarsen and Thomas Hol Fosse7. From Freud to a Modern Theory of Dark Side LeadershipDerek LuskSECTION 2. WHY IT MATTERS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF DARK LEADERSHIP8. The Dark Side and Leader DerailmentJean Brittain Leslie9. Authoritarianism: Understanding the Followers of the Dark SideP.D. Harms and Karen Landay10. Gender and the Dark Side of LeadershipAsia A. Eaton and Barbara Nevicka11. Faultlines, Failure, and Fracture: The Dark Side of Team DynamicsDave Winsborough and Reece Akhtar12. How Bad Leaders Impact Organizational EffectivenessRicky W. Griffin, Andrew A. Hanna, Troy A. Smith, and Bradley L. Kirkman13. How to Mitigate Destructive Leadership-Human Resources-Practices that Mitigate Dark Triad Leaders' Destructive TendenciesBirgit Schyns, Iris K. Gauglitz, Barbara Wisse, and Astrid SchützSECTION 3: OVERCOMING BAD LEADERSHIP IN THE WORKPLACE14. Assessing the Dark Side: Making Informed Decisions Throughout the Leadership LifecycleChristopher T. Rotolo and David W. Bracken15. Taming the Dark Side and Bringing Out the Light: Identifying and Developing High Potential LeadersRobert E. Lewis and Julia Bayless16. Getting Back on Course: A Four-Step Method for Behavior Change for Leader DerailmentJonathan Kirschner and Justin P. Zamora17. A Six Step Solution to Overcoming Bad Leadership: Scientific-Based Leadership Development TrainingDenise L. ReyesSECTION 4: THE HIDDEN BENEFITS OF THE DARK SIDE18. Leadership and Dark-Side Derailers The Risks and Rewards of Extreme PersonalitiesRobert B. Kaiser19. Fearless Dominance-the Upside of Psychopathy? Hanna Aileen Genau and Gerhard Blickle

Anyone who has ever had a "toxic" boss will probably love this book.