“We talk so much about leadership and the need for more good nonprofit leaders, that we tend to forget about the flip side. Bad leadership exists, too.” In this blog post from early July on her blog Perspectives From the Pipeline, Rosetta Thurman describes her fascination with Barbara Kellerman’s book on bad leadership, especially Kellerman’s explanation that just as there can be bad leaders, there also can be bad followers. Thurman’s conclusion based on that notion: “We as nonprofit employees need to be good followers of our executive directors and boards. However, we also need to be ethical in our obedience and be more
Barbara Kellerman
