ABSTRACT
Chapters 8 through 14 contain oppressed followers’ stories based on their experiences with toxic leaders. We “cleaned up” these testimonials to ensure anonymity; however, we retained the author’s “voice”, including spelling or grammar errors, to keep the tenor and tone of each story. We share a summary of the type, supporting cases, a chapter summary, and sources cited. Each case consists of a testimonial followed by questions to evoke understanding, awareness, and leadership acumen. Chapter 9: Abuse of Power Cases includes abuse and degradation of employees. This type of toxic leadership includes leaders who abuse authority positions by consistently degrading employees, ridiculing employees in public, forcing employees to undergo physical and psychological pain, and promoting divisiveness between colleagues. These leaders create environments of low morale, stress, anxiety, depression, distrust, fear, high turnover, everyone for themselves culture, low growth, low motivation, and an increase in litigation on their firms.
