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ruled by the controlling, manipulative, and abusive <span style=""> </span>boss, is a staple of our popular culture as well as the object of sustained investigation by scholars in a variety of disciplines.<span style="">
</span>The misery occasioned by bullying bosses is all over the internet, and observers have long documented the cost of the same to companies, organizations, and economies.<span style="">
</span>Yet the workplace continues<span style=""> </span>to serve as a site for the expression of aggression and casual brutality despite our ever-more-refined characterologies and interventional strategies.<span style="">
</span>In this paper, I examine one dimension of this recalcitrant issue, focusing on a fundamental ambivalence about the leader’s character as sketched by psychologists and other students of management and leadership.<span style="">
</span>In this literature, the leader’s charisma, creativity, and even authoritarianism are deemed essential but also of a piece with the callousness, paranoia, and destructiveness that bring organizations to ruin.
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:10pt"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:16px; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Biography</b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:16px; font-family:Tahoma">:</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Elizabeth
Lunbeck is Nelson Tyrone, Jr Professor of History and Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University. This semester (spring 2013) she is Visiting Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard, offering a graduate course on psychoanalysis.
Lunbeck is a historian of the human sciences, specializing in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, intellectual and cultural history, and gender and sexuality. Her books include </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>The Psychiatric Persuasion:
Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America</i></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> (1994), </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>Family Romance, Family Secrets: Case Notes from an American Psychoanalysis</i></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> (2003),
with Bennett Simon, and a number of edited volumes, among them </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases and Exemplary Narratives </i></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">(2007),
co-edited with Angela Creager and Norton Wise, and, with Lorraine Daston, </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>Histories of Scientific Observation </i></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">(2011)</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>.
</i></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Harvard University Press will publish </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>The Americanization of Narcissism </i></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">in
fall 2013. Lunbeck is co-director, with Emily Martin and Louis Sass, of The Psy-ences Project, a regional seminar encompassing the “psy” disciplines established in 2003. </span></font></font></span></div>
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