"We Few, We Band of Brothers" Organizational Toxicity in History and Film.

WORLD War II films; FILMMAKING; LEADERSHIP; MOTION picture industry; FILM series

Toxic leading is by no means a modern problem--it is a human problem. As such, scholars can take a historical view in their analyses of toxic leading, enriching the study of this problem with additional resources. The authors present an example of this broader scholarly approach in the film study of leadership, using the dramatized World War ii television film series Band of Brothers, which compares the leader behaviors of several characters along a spectrum of harm. Among other suggestive conclusions, the analysis indicates that toxic leading combines a disregard for one's organization and a disregard for other people, and that habitual practice of virtuous behavior inhibits progress along a spectrum of harm that would otherwise result in chronic toxic leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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