Chapter 18

The Manager as Extreme Leader

Steve Farber and Steve Dealph

Editor’s Note

I decided that I wanted Steve Farber to share his ideas about love, audacity, energy, and proof for managers from the moment I knew that I was going to be the editor of this book. The terms management and love and audacity are not often shared in the same sentence, but they ought to be! Over the last 30 years I have observed the differences between managers for whom people want to work, and those from whom they would prefer fleeing. Steve Farber and Steve Dealph have articulated the most important distinctions in this chapter.

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