Two weeks ago today, we discussed Toxic Leadership in class. The general driving force for toxic leaders is their intentional desire to injure others or enhance themselves at others expenses. They engage themselves in careless and reckless actions that will inevitably cause negative effects, suffering and even destruction. There are eighteen different types of Toxic Leaders, all with different approaches to self-gain or edification. I intend to give you a quick look at each of the eighteen types of Toxic Leaders and then provide insight on why we stay with and how to deal with Toxic Leaders.
1) The Absentee Leader
2) The Incompetent Leader
3) The Co-Dependent Leader
4) The Passive-Aggressive Leader
5) The Busybody Leader
6) The Paranoid Leader
7) The Rigid Leader
8) The Controller Leader
9) The Compulsive Leader
10) The Intemperate Leader
11) The Enforcer Leader
12) The Narcissistic Leader
13) The Callous Leader
14) The Street Fighter Leader
15) The Corrupt Leader
16) The Insular Leader
17) The Bully Leader
18) The Evil Leader
There are several terms (underlined bellow) that encompass toxic leadership, they range from incompetence to deception. Someone who is Incompetent has a lack of skill, capability and aptitude needed to complete a function. Malfunctioning occurs when leaders are focused more on their own insecurities, resulting in a Maladjusted or fear of not being good fit to leadership. These leaders tend to become Malcontent, angry and annoyed, portraying Inadequacies such as self-doubt and self-pity. Adding all this negative influences tends to bring Arrogance, Irresponsibility and Cowardice, not recognizing their week points. They begin to see no need to do thing right and feel that they are the best. This leads them to express Selfish Values, ITS ALL ABOUT ME, and an Ego that say they are just into themselves. With all that negativity and prideful leading they are turned into Avarice and Greed, becoming very self-centered and gearing their methods towards money. Their Lack of Integrity starts to take a downward spiral through the Deception they convey. Then it all begins to become ugly and full of hate. These leaders may become to display Malevolent, Malicious and Malfeasance actions. Harm may begin to be evoked, they wish misfortune on others and just display illegal and unprofessional behaviors.
All the above underlined words are ways to describe a toxic leader. So why do we stay with one? Our blue print outline suggests that there may be an internal or external reason for dealing with toxic leaders. The internal reasons include psychological, pragmatic and existential aspects for staying while the external reasons include uncertainty, unfinished business or psychosocial. So this leads into how one may deal with a toxic leader, there are three choices outline. The follower could choose to leave, choose to stay and do nothing or speak out and hope for proximity or information.
Relating toxic leadership to my current everyday life is a rather tricky task. I feel that my INDV teacher has a toxic approach to leading our class. He is often late and doesn’t generally care to be in the classroom. This is made apparent because he rushes through things and fails to aide us when we are struggling. Another toxic leader would be my Mentor, who fails to email me back so we can meet.
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