Publisher's Synopsis
Wars, financial collapses, crumbling infrastructures, poverty, hunger, and business bankruptcies are usually caused by dysfunctional power holders who are often seriously flawed human beings. The irony of all this: we give them the power to engineer such disasters.
Voters, Boards of Directors and other selectors often transfer great power and wealth to flawed individuals whose defects were unnoticed or ignored. Subsequently we seem surprised that we've made those sorry choices.
But a candidate's true character is not so easily disguised and serious researchers probing prior behavior discern those who lack judgment, courage, authenticity, decency, loyalty, tact, integrity, sensitivity, etc. Failing this leads to...failings.
Many wise men have studied leaders worthy of the name and also those broken individuals who break whatever they touch. This text, like a grand seminar, puts it all together to help us choose between true leaders and the defective, destructive power holder. The choice is yours, mine, ours.
"I feel that Naimark's "How To be a Truly Rotten Boss" was one of the funniest and most liberating books on leadership I've read. Now "The Leadership Disaster" shows the way to rational power holder selection. I love these books." Warren Bennis Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California "From rotten bosses to inappropriate leaders in all fields, not just business, George Naimark has once again nailed one of the biggest issues facing our country today."
William R. Johnston Former President, New York Stock Exchange
"I agree with [the] assessment that the state of leadership in our nation is a tremendous concern...many of the problems in corporations and government can be traced back to the process by which we select leaders. The Leadership Disaster is a wellspring of information on what proper leadership should look like. Dr. Naimark is right on track."
Bob Edgar President & CEO, Common Cause
..".a great read [with] more good leadership ideas, quotes and pithy anecdotes than I have ever seen before in one place."
Jack Bowman Former Company Group Chairman, Johnson & Johnson
..".wonderful, thought-provoking read. I love this book..."
Marcia Kean CEO, Feinstein Kean Healthcare (An Ogilvy-Mather Company)
..".a book of extraordinary value and importance."
L. P. Horowitz Co-Founder, HVA, Inc."
