Boogeyman Leadership: How to Turn Your Employees Into Listless Zombies

by Tom DePaoli, Laurie Barrows (Illustrator)

Fight back against leaders who are bullies! Dr.Tom DePaoli in Boogeyman How to Turn Your Employees into Listless Zombies shares awful leadership real-life stories to make sure you are well-prepared for them. As a renowned leadership consultant. He can teach you how survive leaders who are bullies ! Dr. Tom has experienced and corrected awful leadership in many organizations. You can beat their miserable and intimidating leadership tactics whose purpose is to terrify you and instill distrust, apathy and fear. The book gives examples of dreadful leadership and even more horrible management tactics, that others have amazingly survived and stymied in their careers. He urges the reader to resist these methods at all costs. He sadly notes that these failed leadership ploys are becoming more common, destructive and hurtful. Counter punch leaders who are bullies! The book · Boogeyman leaders’ tactics. · One hundred stories of awful leadership. · Dreadful leadership approaches. · Contrasting authentic leadership principles. · Superb illustrations that enhance the stories. Like a good horror story, you will not be able to put this book down once you start.

155 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2019

About the author

Dr. Tom DePaoli is currently the Management Program Director at Marian University in Fond du Lac Wisconsin. He is the Principal (CEO) of Apollo Solutions (apollosolutions.us) which does general business consulting in the human resources, supply chain and lean six sigma areas. The company was founded in 1995. He retired from the Navy Reserve after over 30 years of service. In other civilian careers, he was a supply chain and human resources executive with corporate purchasing turnaround experience and Lean Six Sigma deployments. He has worked for over 10 major companies and consulted for over 50 organizations throughout my career. Some of his consulting projects included: transformation, information systems projects, re-engineering organizations, e-procurement, e-commerce, change management, global sourcing and negotiating. His industry experience is in the chemical, paper, pharmaceutical, IT, automotive, government, consumer, equipment, services and consulting industries. He has been published extensively in journals, magazines and books. He has been involved in many forms of communications including website design, marketing campaigns, political campaigns, radio advertisements, and scripts.

Reviews

[Kevin Hogan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this in a NetGalley ARC edition.

The examples of what not to do are interesting if not particularly well-organized. There were enough typos and grammar issues that I am hopeful it underwent some revision before being officially published.

[Kristina · Rating 2 out of 5]

I appreciated the concept of this leadership guide, but found it not well executed. The entire premise is sharing awful leadership tactics in Hope's to inspire leaders to make different choices. The author makes a point in his introduction to state there will be redundancies, but I felt like I was reading the same few points ad nauseam. There were numerous grammar errors throughout the book as well. There are great ideas within this work, but overall it missed the mark for me.

I received a free PDF of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Charlotte Lisbon · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

Free digital copy via netgalley

This book was fun and depressing at the same time. Some of the examples described the behaviour of some of my superiors too perfectly. Making the book half of the size would have sufficed as it contains a lot of repetition (of which the author warns beforehand)

If you want some bad examples of leadership then you should read this book

[Darya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has reminded me of kids stories with bad advice I used to read when a child. The main concept was to tell kids bad advice counting they will do the opposite. Interesting idea applied for leaders. Sometimes we do not notice what and how we do things and once we read about those behaviors we can recognized ourselves in certain situations. Fun reading!

[Thomas Depaoli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book!
Don’t let the title scare you! The bad leaders will. Dr. Tom DePaoli in Boogeyman Leadership: How to Turn Your Employees into Listless Zombies, showcases poor leaders and their tactics that inevitably fail. He believes you should know what does not work first, so that an aspiring good leader does not waste time on such failed approaches. He does not pretend to offer any silver bullet solutions to correct these poor leadership policies. He defines boogeyman leadership as the use of miserable and intimidating leadership tactics whose purpose is to terrify employees and instill distrust, apathy and fear. The result is a zombie-like listless state. Boogeyman Leadership recounts many bad leadership ideas and real-life stories to make sure the reader crosses these schemes off their leadership list. The reader should be forewarned that many of the bad leadership ideas are repetitive. Bad leaders are not very creative! The book is not a solemn academic book or a guide to great leadership successes. Its purpose is to give examples of terrible leadership and worse management tactics that Dr. Tom and others have experienced in their careers. Dr. Tom sadly notes that these failed leadership ploys are becoming even more common, destructive and hurtful. He urges the reader to avoid these methods at all costs. Followers never forget bullying leaders.