[Shadow_Group] Fw: [thepeopleweb-events] Center for Ethical Leadership presents: Leadership and Illusions, Oct. 25

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Join the Center for Ethical Leadership at the Good City Luncheon
as we present the kickoff event of the 2004-5 series:

Leadership and Illusions
Keynote: Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D.

Monday, October 25th
11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; tickets $25
Downstairs at Town Hall, Seattle

Leaders appeal to our deepest needs by offering us illusions of safety,
self-esteem, heroism, even immortality. Toxic leaders, who leave us worse
off than they found us, play upon our innermost anxieties and everyday
fears. They create illusions, sometimes "noble visions," that promise to
restore order and bring meaning to our lives. Toxic leaders make grandiose
promises that they -- and we, too -- know they cannot fulfill.

So, why do we believe these dream merchants and willingly take up their
cause. More importantly, how do we recognize toxic leaders before we buy
into their illusions -- illusions that frequently end in disaster.

This timely keynote by nationally renowned leadership author and speaker
Jean Lipman-Blumen draws from her recent book The Allure of Toxic Leaders:
Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians - And How We Can
Survive Them (Oxford University Press. 2004).

She is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of
Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate
School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. She is a co-founding
director of the
Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership and served as a special advisor
in the White House under
President Carter. Her 1999 book, Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and
Using Them to Ignite Your
Organization, (Oxford University Press) (with Harold J. Leavitt) was the
Association of American Publishers'
"Business Book of the Year." It has been translated into Spanish,
Portuguese, Finnish, Korean and Chinese.

Advance reservations are required. We recommend making reservations by Oct.
20
Please call 206-328-3020 for reservations and information.

Map, driving and parking directions are available at
www.ethicalleadership.org<http://www.ethicalleadership.org/>  Discounted parking is available.

This luncheon is co-presented by the Ernest Becker Foundation and PEMCO.

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