The Dark Side of Leadership Revisited
It has been twenty-two years since Jay Conger wrote “The Dark Side of Leadership,” an article that rocked the world of leadership studies. The premise of the article was that the very qualities that propel an individual into leadership also contain the seeds of destruction that, once germinated, can bring down both the leaders and the organizations for which they are responsible. Was Conger right? What do you think? The article focused on three major…