MISLEADERSHIP

The MisLeadership of this book s title is a description of the phenomenon the authors have uncovered through their analysis of the validity or otherwise of current leadership styles and achievements in the light of the challenges leaders face and particularly of the urgent global issues with which business leaders are now confronted John Rayment and Jonathan Smith examine existing approaches to leadership with a focus on their shortcomings categorized according to the four main types of misLeadership the authors have identified Missing Misguided Misinformed and Machiavellian leadership Each of these forms of misleadership has a corollary in one of the four elements of the kind of holistic leadership that the authors advocate the capacity for effective decision making the adoption of a global perspective the move to a new business paradigm to replace the current economic and social one and commitment to a contemporary mission From Rayment and Smith s passionately argued but well reasoned perspective leaders the led and those responsible for leadership development will gain an insight into the prevalence and causes of misleadership and into ways in which it can be identified and overcome A range of examples and case studies is provided to enabl