977: What Makes Leaders Bad—and What You Can Do About It–with Dr. Barbara Kellerman

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Barbara Kellerman explores the roots of bad leadership and offers strategic tips for challenging it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Where leadership training falls short

2) The two core components of “bad” leadership

3) Four tips for standing up to bad leaders

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— ABOUT BARBARA —

Barbara Kellerman was Founding Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School; the Kennedy’s School’s James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Leadership; and a member of the Harvard faculty for over twenty years. She is currently a Fellow at the Center.

Kellerman received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. (in Political Science) degrees from Yale University. She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and three Fulbright fellowships. Kellerman was cofounder of the International Leadership Association (ILA) and is author and editor of many books. She’s appeared on numerous media outlets and has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Harvard Business Review.

She received the Wilbur M. McFeeley Award from the National Management Association for her pioneering work on leadership and followership, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association. From 2015 to 2024 she has been ranked by Global Gurus as among the “World’s Top 30 Management Professionals.”

• Book: Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good)

• Book: Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers

• Book: Professionalizing Leadership

• Website: BarbaraKellerman.com

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• Documents: The Federalist Papers

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0:00.0	Unless we take on bad leadership, it's almost certain to get worse.
0:13.6	The longer, bad, is able to take root rather like a plant.
0:19.0	The digger those roots go and the harder it becomes to uproot them.
0:26.4	Assess your costs and your benefits. Don't be dumb, even if you want to upend bad, however defined, be careful, be aware of your own self-interest.
0:36.4	Do you really need the job?
0:37.6	Or is your talent sought elsewhere?
0:40.1	And are you willing to lose your job over your intervention or over your action.
0:48.0	That's Dr. Barbara Kellerman.
0:50.0	She's the founding executive director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she also teaches.
0:55.1	Global Guru's ranked her among the world's top 30 management professionals year after year.
1:00.5	She's also an award-winning speaker and author
1:02.8	of many books and today she's sharing some wisdom from her latest
1:06.4	leadership from bad to worse what happens with bad festers. So you'll learn
1:10.9	one where leadership training falls short.
1:13.0	Two, two core components of bad leadership and three, four tips for standing up to bad leaders.
1:19.0	I'm Pete McKitus.
1:20.0	This is How to Be Awesome at your job.
1:21.0	And now, here's Barbara.
1:25.2	Barbara, welcome.
1:26.6	Well, thank you, Pete.
1:27.5	I'm glad to be here.
1:28.6	Thanks for asking me.
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