Objective: The purpose of this assignment is to observe and analyze examples of "toxic leadership" in order to identify concrete examples of ethical situations and applications in everyday life.

Description: Review the summary of toxic leaders from the screenshots below. Some of the descriptors outlined include that toxic leaders "leave followers worse off than when they found them, consciously feed their own power and impair followers' capacities to act independently, play to the basest fears and needs of the follower, and mislead followers through deliberate untruths and misdiagnoses of issues and problems" (Lipman-Blumen, 2005).

The Behaviors of Toxic Leaders Toxic leaders, who initially charm, but ultimately manipulate, mistreat, and undermine their followers, engage in a wide range of destructive behaviors. We shall consider as \"toxic leaders\" those individuals who engage in one or more of the following behaviors: * Leaving their followers (and sometimes non-followers) worse off than they found them by deliberately undermining, demeaning, seducing, marginalizing, intimidating, demoralizing, disenfranchising, incapacitating, imprisoning, lorfuring, lerrorizing, or killing them; * Violating the basic human rights of their own supporters and others; * Engaging in corrupt, criminal, and/or other unethical activities; * Deliberately feeding their followers illusions that enhance the leader's power and impair the followers\" capacity Lo act independently, including depicting themselves as the only one who can \"save\" the followers; * Playing to the basest fears and needs of their followers; Stifling constructive criticism and teaching supporters (sometimes by threats and authoritarianism) to comply with, rather than to question, the leader's judgment and actions; Misleading followers through deliberate untruths and misdiagnoses of issues and problems; * Subverting those structures and processes of the system intended to generate truth, justice, and excellence and engaging in criminal acts; * Building totalitarian or narrowly dynastic regimes, including undermining the legal processes for selecting and supporting new leaders; * Failing to nurture other leaders, including their own successors (with the occasional exception of blood kin) or otherwise improperly clinging to power; * Maliciously setting constituents against one another; * Treating their own followers well, but persuading them to hate and/or destroy others; * [dentifying scapegoats and inciting others to castigate them; * Siructuring the costs of overthrowing them as a trigger for the downfall of the system they lead, thus further endangering followers and non-followers, alike: * Failing to recognize or ignoring and/or promoting incompetence, cronyism, and corruption; and * Behaving incompetently by misdiagnosing problems and failing to implement solutions to recognized problems. Clearly, this lengthy, but incomplete, catalogue of behaviors starts at the intentionally malevolent end of the spectrum, where the toxic leader acts with deliberate negative, even evil, intent. At the end of the list, where personal incompetence and the inability to recognize it in others come into play, intentionality may be less salient, but harmful consequences occur nonetheless