Abstract
The concept of toxic leadership has been popularised by the American academic, Jean Lipman-Blumen, who argued that some leaders demonstrate toxic tendencies that produce polarisation and division. Her ideas are better developed with regard to business leaders and have thus been located within the business academic literature. However, implicit within her analysis was the assumption that the concept of toxicity could be applied to prominent politicians. This article considers this concept of toxic leadership and acts an introductory paper for a series of case studies based on five controversial political leadersâTony Blair, George W. Bush, Silvio Berlusconi, Thaksin Shinawatra and Robert Mugabeâall of whom will be applied to the Lipman-Blumen toxicity model.
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