The Leadership Shadow: How to Recognise and Avoid Derailment, Hubris and Overdrive

In today's fast paced, interconnected, and mercilessly competitive business world, senior executives have to push themselves and others hard. Paradoxically, to succeed as leaders, they also need to relate to others very well. Under stress and challenge, the qualities executives have relied on to get them to the top and to achieve outstanding results can overshoot into unhelpful drives that lead to business and personal catastrophes.The Leadership Shadow draws on the lived experience of executives to make sense of what actually happens when their drivers overshoot and they act out the dark side of leadership. It shows how executives can find stability in the face of uncertainty, resilience in the face of gruelling demand, and psychological equilibrium as a leader in the face of turbulence.

Author: Erik de Haan, Anthony Kasozi
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 08/26/2014
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780749470494

About the Author

Erik de Haan is the Director of Ashridge's Centre for Coaching and Professor of Organization Development and Coaching at VU University Amsterdam. He regularly works with a range of universities and multinational companies, including BP, Heineken, Nike and Qualcomm. He is also the author of several books including Supervision in Action (Open University Press), Relational Coaching (Wiley) and Behind Closed Doors (Libri Publishing).

Anthony Kasozi is Director of Quilibra Consulting and an associate with Ashridge Consulting and previously worked with Unilever and Deloitte. He is a highly experienced management and organization consultant with clients that include HP Services, Masterfoods (Mars), The World Health Organization, Oxfam, Siemens Financial Services, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), The International Finance Corporation (World Bank), UNAIDs and The Global Fund.