toxicity iss the root of all evil!

In every organization, there are always good people and the bad ones, those commonly referred to as the ‘Bad Apples’ of the organization. These individuals possess certain traits and characteristics that make them toxic and dangerous to the progress of the organization. This is the same as with the leadership organization, there are some leaders who possess these toxic characteristics that make them a threat to their respective organizations. Some of these characteristics include: incompetence, malfunctioning, irresponsible, sense of inadequacy, insatiable ambition, amoral and etc. All these characteristics and more are what constitute a toxic leader; these traits are dangerous traits that could destroy any association and for the leader to have these traits makes it even more unhealthy. There are two forms of toxic leadership: intentional and unintentional (toxic leadership notes).

            In previous years, while I was part of certain groups, I experienced leaders with such traits and I was also at some point a toxic leader. While in a senior Cotillion, I encountered a leader who possessed some of these qualities and could be describe as a toxic leader. The head of the cotillion had insatiable ambition, amoral behaviors, avarice and greed, and a huge amount of egotism. She managed to remain fair and equal as she possible could, but her different treatment toward each one of us made it very evident that she discriminated between us. Her trait of greed and avarice made her treat the wealthier children with more respect and care than she did the rest of us. She also had a quest for insatiable ambition; she wanted to promote and further the organization so much, she also behaved differently towards the parents. She made the individuals with connections and money, close associates of hers with no regards for the other parents. The toxic traits she had contributed to the downfall of the organization because most parents weren’t pleased with her behavior and swore to ensure that the organization didn’t prosper. In this case, she was an unintentional toxic leader because Engage in careless and reckless actions, including incompetence, nonetheless causing negative effects

            Another example of toxic leadership going on in current news is that situation with the Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi and the situation going on in Libya. The Libyan citizens are fed up with Gaddafi’s bad leadership and continuous rein, and they are demanding for his resignation. These problems all erupted partly because the Libyan constituents view Gaddafi as a toxic leader who doesn’t really care much about the need of his people, but he uses his power to further his insatiable ambition greed. Even in times of turmoil, Gaddafi is still bent on being president and will not resign. He instead decides to utilize violence, murdering the people he is supposed to protect from harm because his toxic traits already characterized him as a bad leader. he was and is still an amoral president who lacks any respect for his country. In Gaddafi’s case, he would be labeled as an intentional toxic leader because he is deliberately injuring others to enhance himself as president (toxic leadership notes).