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This paper introduces a fourth leadership category: Monstrous leadership. While monstrous leaders, like charismatic leaders, are driven by their passions, monstrous leaders are unable to inspire these passions in followers. As monstrous leaders are obsessively passionate about their job, they provoke distance and resistance among colleagues who have different interests and passions.
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The paper sheds light on the dark side of the currently fashionable trend of passionate leadership, and problematizes the increasing conflation of life and work.
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This page is a summary of: More passion than the job requires? Monstrously transgressive leadership in the promotion of health at work, Leadership, August 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1742715013486037.
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