Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of Theranos, the blood-testing company, is currently awaiting sentencing after being found guilty in January of bilking the company’s investors ...

The “Toxic Triangle” framework provides a valuable perspective on how destructive leaders, vulnerable followers, and an accommodating environment can combine to create organizational dysfunction.

These leaders put their followers up against the organization’s purpose and vision, which makes the followers very destructive. The followers become impossible to contain, and, sometimes, the ...

Destructive leadership. Jobs in the hospitality industry often involve frequent shift changes, low pay, lack of recognition, emotional labor and inconvenient working hours, ...

In contrast, a destructive leader only trusts himself/herself because he/she doesn't have faith in anyone else's abilities or motives. Inspirational leadership is about leading by example.

A recent study aimed to understand narcissistic leaders and who is most likely to follow them. The results revealed a few patterns. If you are someone who is always looking out for others ...

To improve workers’ health, research shows, companies need to support “transformational” leaders and weed out “destructive” actors, not just tout wellness programs ...

Follower personality has been shown to play a role in how followers perceive and experience destructive leaders (Nevicka & De Hoogh, 2018). Followers low on self-esteem demonstrate a greater ...

A conducive environment, a destructive leader and susceptible followers are known as the “toxic triangle.” Bad leadership often results from a lack of hard and soft skill competencies.