Peacocks, Drill Sergeants, and Chess Masters: Types of ‘Toxic’ Leaders

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Over the course of his career, including stints at PayPal, Cisco, and Nike, Sean Lemson has encountered all varieties of leaders — good, bad, and toxic.

Toxic leaders are a special breed of “bad,” capable, often without even realizing it, of chasing off the best employees and slowly killing their companies.

Sean is the founder of Motivated Outcomes, which coaches corporate leaders on rooting toxic traits out of their company culture and training destructive leaders to stop hurting their subordinates and start inspiring them instead.

His new book is One Drop of Poison: How One Bad Leader Can Slowly Kill Your Company.

Listen now as Sean calls out some of the most common toxic leadership archetypes, reveals how to spot them, and offers practical methods to immunize any business against their poisonous effects.

Photo: Sean Lemson, Motivated OutcomesPosted: April 29, 2024Monday Morning Run Time: 50:05Episode: 12.43

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