Leadership from Bad to Worse is the title of my forthcoming book. The subtitle is, What Happens When Bad Festers. *
As it pertains then to the crisis in the Middle East, I quote from David Grossman’s recent piece in the Financial Times, “Israel Is in a Nightmare.”
“What’s happening now is the concrete price Israel is paying for having been seduced for years by a corrupt leadership which drove it downhill from bad to worse; which eroded its institutions of law and justice, its military, its education system; which was willing to place it in existential danger in order to keep its prime minister out of prison.“
Grossman, one of Israel’s most distinguished men of letters, does not let Hamas off the hook. He writes plainly that the “horror” was “effected by Hamas.” But in this piece his rage, and his grief, are directly primarily at his own people who allowed the slide, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “corrupt leadership,” to continue unimpeded and interrupted. Catastrophe, tragedy, were the inevitable result.
It’s what happens: When leadership and followership are bad, unless they are stopped they get worse.
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*The book will be published by Oxford University Press on March 1, 2024. Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers can be preordered now on Amazon and other outlets.