Since Fall of 2021 I’ve been tracking formal leaders’ experiences with Legacy Toxicity, and earlier this month I shared the inaugural quantitative dataset for this ongoing data collection project. In this post, I’m sharing qualitative data from the survey (n=53). These are selected responses from two open-ended questions asking participants to offer contextual information aboutContinue reading “Report: Legacy Toxicity in Formal Leader Low-Morale Experiences – Part 2 (March 2023)”
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Report: Legacy Toxicity in Formal Leader Low-Morale Experiences – Part 1 (February 2023)
For the past few years I’ve been considering something I call Legacy Toxicity: the dysfunctional environment inherited by a person who assumes a leadership position in a toxic organization or group. Such toxicity may not be effectively mitigated due to the previous incumbent’s role in a) engaging in or perpetuating abuse/neglect, b) already exhausting avenuesContinue reading “Report: Legacy Toxicity in Formal Leader Low-Morale Experiences – Part 1 (February 2023)”