Toxic Leaders in Army
Review the website (Mind Tools) paying close attention to the above mentioned sections. Evaluate your leader describing their base of power, leadership motivation, and leadership style. Give specific examples to substantiate your choices of each and explain how your leader’s characteristics were effective in the context in which you experienced them. Must answer the questions in leadership paper.
- Title: Toxic Leaders in Army
- Font: Times New Roman 12pt
Write a 5-page APA style containing the above content. Use no less than 3 references
Reference: 3 outside source. Must use information from Mind Tools website http://www.mindtools.com/index.html.
- Do you believe that your leader utilized effective techniques for the environment in which you were working with them? Why or why not?
- If you could change your leader’s attributes, how would you do so and why?
- How has your leader influenced you and your own leadership development?
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Leadership skills are both inborn and acquired in life through patience, hard work and persistence. Leadership is influenced by factors like base of power, leadership motivation, and leadership style. A toxic leader entails a person who has mandate over a group of people or organization but abuses the leader-follower relationship by leaving the organization in a bad condition than he/she found it. (Jackson & Smith, 2011) Toxic leader is a phrase that was coined by Marcia Whicker in 1967 and it is associated to a number…………………
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