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* PEOPLE ASSOCIATE A "LEADER" AS SOMETHING inherently "good," but Barbara Kellerman, a lecturer in public policy and research director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, has set out to change that perception. She says it's time to separate the bad leaders from the good ones. In Bad Leadership, published by Harvard Business School Press, Kellerman identifies leaders in government, business, and nonprofit organizations who fit the label of bad leaders and then discusses how and why their leadership failed in some respect.
According to Kellerman, there are seven different categories of bad leadership: incompetent, rigid, intemperate, callous, corrupt, insular, and evil. Kellerman selected seven individuals to exemplify each category, and readers will recognize most of them: former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Berry, Jr....