Unmasking Toxic Leadership: How to Recognize, Resist, and Recover from Harmful Workplace Power Dynamics, (Paperback)

<p><b>Toxic leadership thrives in the shadows. This book brings it into the light.</b></p><p>Have you ever felt silenced, diminished, or marginalized by a leader who seemed charismatic on the surface but left you questioning what you were experiencing? You're not alone.</p><p><i>Unmasking Toxic Leadership</i> provides the language and frameworks you need to discern harmful power dynamics that often hide behind charisma, niceness, or even performative "godliness." Through compelling stories, solid research, and practical reflection, leadership expert Yulee Lee offers a refreshing and unflinching examination of toxic leadership patterns that devastate individuals and communities, including those within faith-based contexts. Lee writes from both professional experience and her own journey as an Asian American woman navigating these very dynamics.</p><p>First, you'll gain the tools to understand what toxic leadership is, how it disguises itself, and why certain environments allow it to flourish. Next, you'll explore the deep effects of toxic leadership on individuals and communities, including how toxicity reshapes identities, choices, and relationships. Finally, you'll learn practices of detoxing, reclaiming agency, and envisioning healthier organizational cultures.</p><p><b>What you'll get from </b><b><i>Unmasking Toxic Leadership</i></b><b>: </b></p><ul><li>Clear frameworks and tools to see harmful patterns that might otherwise remain hidden</li><li>Empowering language to name and process your experiences with toxic authority</li><li>Practical strategies and healing pathways to resist toxic power dynamics and reclaim your agency</li><li>Vision for renewal to create healthier leadership cultures and leave a different legacy</li></ul> <p>Whether you're currently navigating a toxic work environment, processing past trauma from harmful leadership, or forming your own leadership identity, this book serves to help you recognize and resist toxic leadership while ensuring you don't perpetuate these patterns yourself.</p><p>Toxic leadership doesn't have to be the story we inherit. It's time to choose a different legacy. Join the hopeful work of creating nontoxic communities and embodying leadership that heals rather than harms.</p><p></p>

• Unmasking Toxic Leadership: How to Recognize, Resist, and Recover from Harmful Workplace Power Dynamics, (Paperback)
• Author: Yulee Lee
• ISBN: 9781514017661
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-02-02
• Page Count: 224