Chapter 11 Viral Strategic Leadership and Organizational Consequences: Is Your Healthy

Abstract

This chapter focuses on “healthy-sick” organizations. We define them as those organizations that appear to be healthy to the outside world but are sick at their core. We identify and discuss, in detail, singular attributes of healthy-sick organizations and their path to failure. As senior organizational leaders are responsible for creating and maintaining the set of interactions that creates the healthy-sick phenomenon, our elaboration will necessarily focus on these leader(s). We conclude with a set of recommendations to mitigate the probability of organizations falling into the healthy-sick trap.

Citation

Santalainen, T.J. and Baliga, B.R. (2007), "Chapter 11 Viral Strategic Leadership and Organizational Consequences: Is Your Healthy", Hooijberg, R., (Jerry) Hunt, J.G., Antonakis, J., Boal, K.B. and Lane, N. (Ed.) Being There Even When You Are Not (Monographs in Leadership and Management, Vol. 4), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 195-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3571(07)04010-2