Intoxicating Followership: in the Jonestown Massacre
Wendy M. Edmonds
Bowie State University, USA
Wendy M. Edmonds
Bowie State University, USA
Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781800714595
- Published:
- 16 Mar 2021
- Publisher:
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Dimensions:
- 96 pages - 152 x 229mm
Categories:
Toxic behavior is on the rise in public safety organizations, businesses, politics, and churches, to name a few. Faced with unprecedented circumstances, there is a need to better understand leader/follower interdependence when destructive leaders are at the helm making harmful decisions.
Toxic followership begins with the pioneering spirit of a trusted individual who, through creative manipulation, transforms our mindset whereby we can so easily become an extension of a toxic leader’s moral decay. There is a myth that the Jonestown tragedy is a distant episode in history that can only happen in certain environments with people unlike oneself. The survivor’s stories are reminders that without understanding the framework of toxic followership, the unsuspecting targets are prey, available for consumption by a leader with liquidated morals.
This book is for those who desire to gain insight into the leader/follower dynamic in order to serve others by unmasking the dangers of toxic followership, provide prevention suggestions, and reveal followers' power, even in desperate situations.
Wendy’s book is concise, gripping and essential. Above all, this book is a call to action: We must do everything within our power to thwart toxic leadership but that won’t happen until we recognize the power and relevance of toxic followership.
- Marc and Samantha Hurwitz, Authors of Leadership Is Half the Story: A Fresh Look At Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration