{"product_id":"a-bad-leader-a-book-about-the-leader-you-might-be-9781778168734","title":"A Bad Leader: A Book About the Leader You Might Be","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marc Baily\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bailycom\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bailycom\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Leadership\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYour team doesn't have a motivation problem. They have a you problem.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou've read the leadership books. You've nodded along to podcasts about emotional intelligence and servant leadership. And then you walked into Monday morning and did the same things you've always done - micromanaged and called it support, avoided conflict and called it diplomacy, stolen credit and called it teamwork, burned people out and called it dedication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEveryone sees it. Except you.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Bad Leader\u003c\/b\u003e is not a leadership book. It's a self-confrontation book. Through thirteen unflinching chapters, each exposing a specific leadership failure that most leaders will recognize in everyone except themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarc Baily dismantles the comfortable stories you've been telling yourself about why people leave, why teams underperform, and why the culture you built doesn't feel the way you think it does. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside these pages, you'll confront: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 20% gap\u003c\/b\u003e between how you rate yourself and how your team actually rates you, and why that gap is where people quit \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe five mechanisms of burnout culture\u003c\/b\u003e you're running right now, including why your sixty-hour weeks produce less output than someone else's forty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe real reason\u003c\/b\u003e your \"open door policy\" hasn't produced a single piece of honest feedback in years \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy your \"radical candor\"\u003c\/b\u003e is just cruelty with a vocabulary, and what actual honesty requires \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe accountability dodge\u003c\/b\u003e you've perfected so thoroughly that you've edited your own memory to believe you saw every failure coming. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe echo chamber\u003c\/b\u003e you've mistaken for consensus, and why the silence in your meetings isn't agreement, it's fear \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a book of frameworks, acronyms, or four-quadrant matrices. There are no assessments to take and no scores to celebrate. This is a book that looks you in the eye and asks the question your team wishes they could: \u003ci\u003eWhat would they say about you if you couldn't hear them?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawn from years of coaching at companies of every size, and from the author's own unflinching confession of every leadership failure in these pages, \u003cb\u003eA Bad Leader\u003c\/b\u003e is the book that finally tells you what your direct reports, your exit interviews, and your Sunday-night dread have been trying to tell you for years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe reckoning isn't coming. It's here. The only question is whether you'll meet it, or keep walking past the mirror.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf this description made you uncomfortable, the book is for you.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bailycom","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883353522327,"sku":"9781778168734","price":1288.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781778168734.webp?v=1781101388","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-bad-leader-a-book-about-the-leader-you-might-be-9781778168734","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}