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What is Bad Leadership?
Bad Leadership, as defined by the definition of leadership, "Guiding Intent with Integrity", Bad leadership is a product of several bad choices on the leaders part that misguides his followers, hides, represses or denies intentions, and completely misunderstands or construes the social contract between them and their followers. A bad leader consistently makes bad decisions 75% or more of the time.
Bad Leaders Fail 75% of the time
One of the points I made earlier in this conversation was the Bad Leaders make bad choices 75% of the time. Two (2) of those choices are not building coalitions and not looking at how the change will playout like a stage play. Leaders that neglect to build alliances in various the groups - peers, followers, non-followers, outsiders and observers - make the of becoming the issue, instead of leading the change. Organizational members can then ignore the need for change by getting rid of the leader that represents the issue. However, if there are several people trumpeting the same message for change, it is harder to marginalize and get rid of them. The message is usually about what change is needed to the organizational structure in order to accommodate the new world order being brought about by other elements and forces outside the organization. An organization that does not adapt to these changes will eventually die out. However, leaders face a tougher challenge when changing organizational elements because people like certainty. They know where their next meal is coming from now. If you change the rules, they don't know if they will get fed. Change can also affect many other aspects of the organizations psychie, but that discussion is too broad to cover in one paragraph. To summarize, an organization has a history, culture, rituals, pride, and many other facets that need to be accounted for in order to instigate change. If a leader neglects any portion of this, they may be unwittingly building a coalition against them. To understand this last point, leaders need to look at the change process as a play being produced. There is the author who wrote a message into the story, the actors portraying characters in the story, there is the director who is adding and deleting scenes to help focus a message in the story, and then there is the audience who is watching the play. Add scenery, lighting and music to spice up the drama, and you have a play. A leader that can step into all these roles as well as step out and watch how all these roles affect each other, can more accurately tailor their corrective actions. Stories are adapted all the time to summarize longer stories. For example, ReBoot ends with a rendition of "I'm a modern major general".
Using the Definition of Leasership
The def of leadership is ... guiding intent w integrity ...
Thus, you can choose different values for guidance, intent and integrity, when describing different types of leaders and leadership styles.
Guidance swings between to transparency to deception. Intent swings between altruistic to xenophobia. And, integrity is based on the social contract w communitys expectations on social norms. Thus, how does a leader uses his guidence to influence the interests and intentions of community.
This allows us to begin describing a leader using the characteristics we see in leadership. The ability to be a successful charismatic story teller w a deep voice. Aka Morgan Freeman.
In contrast, we can describe Palpateen as being deceptive, using misdirection, and creating artificial stressors in order to move community support in a specific direction.
Btw .. these are only 2 of the types of leaders that can be describe by this definition. There are at least 16 .. but I choose to focus on great, positive, good, general, bad, negative and dark leaders.