Sly and Mighty: How to Recognize, Resist and Rise Above Toxic Power
Autor Kathleen Saxtonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2026
We live in a world where confidence is mistaken for competence, and dominance for strength. Across politics, business and everyday workplaces - including yours - a damaging leadership style has taken hold, defined by low empathy, excessive control and performative reassurance that conceals real harm. InSly and Mighty,acclaimed psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton reveals how narcissistic leadership operates both loudly and invisibly. Whether overt or covert, it corrodes culture, silences dissent and leaves people anxious, confused and diminished.
More than a diagnostic guide, this book combines high-stakes case studies with the latest research on workplace narcissism to offer clear insight and practical therapeutic strategies. Saxton helps you recognise unhealthy dynamics, protect your self-worth and reclaim agency. From high finance to the voluntary sector,Sly and Mightyis both a map and a mirror for anyone seeking healthier leadership - and a healthier relationship with power.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399836876
ISBN-10: 1399836870
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: Up to 10 b/w line drawings
Dimensiuni: 150 x 232 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția Sheldon Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399836870
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: Up to 10 b/w line drawings
Dimensiuni: 150 x 232 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția Sheldon Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Positive leadership is key to a successful business and fulfilled employees - if it's not working it needs to be brought sharply into focus. Kathleen Saxton names the challenges, explains them and, crucially, shows you how to deal with them. Every boss and every board should read this.
Kathleen Saxton has done something rare and necessary. She has taken the lived experience of toxic power and given it both a clinical framework and a human face. Essential reading for anyone who leads, is led or sits on a board.
A rare and important contribution, rigorous in its psychological grounding yet utterly accessible. Saxton bridges the gap between clinical insight and organisational reality with true authority.
Sly & Mighty is the book I wish had existed earlier in my career; for anyone in a leadership or management role, building a culture or simply trying to survive one, it will be hugely valuable. Saxton writes with authority, compassion and the hard-won wisdom that only comes from having seen this world from every angle.
I have seen first-hand how a deeply toxic individual can distort an entire organisation around them. Kathleen's book is a long-needed and essential examination of some of the disturbing truths behind power. What begins as an attempt to manage one 'valuable' individual's behaviour allows the toxicity to spread through the culture, crippling the organisation itself and making one person's pathology become the organisation's dysfunction.
Kathleen Saxton has done something rare and necessary. She has taken the lived experience of toxic power and given it both a clinical framework and a human face. Essential reading for anyone who leads, is led or sits on a board.
A rare and important contribution, rigorous in its psychological grounding yet utterly accessible. Saxton bridges the gap between clinical insight and organisational reality with true authority.
Sly & Mighty is the book I wish had existed earlier in my career; for anyone in a leadership or management role, building a culture or simply trying to survive one, it will be hugely valuable. Saxton writes with authority, compassion and the hard-won wisdom that only comes from having seen this world from every angle.
I have seen first-hand how a deeply toxic individual can distort an entire organisation around them. Kathleen's book is a long-needed and essential examination of some of the disturbing truths behind power. What begins as an attempt to manage one 'valuable' individual's behaviour allows the toxicity to spread through the culture, crippling the organisation itself and making one person's pathology become the organisation's dysfunction.
Descriere
The groundbreaking new book which exposes the psychology of destructive leadership and how to rise above it
'Rare and necessary... essential reading for anyone who leads, or is led.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Jon Slade, CEO, Financial Times
'Every boss, every board member and every employed person should read this.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Theo Paphitis, Dragon, Entrepreneur and Retail Champion
'An essential guide to power, politics and personality at work." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Anna Jones, CEO, The Telegraph
'Indispensable... I will be recommending it.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Prof. Andrew Stephen, Saïd Business School, Oxford
We are all, at times, awakened by the courage of another.
Great leadership expands us: possibility, conviction, a sense of what we might become.
But where there is light, there is also shadow.
Across boardrooms, staffrooms and communities, a corrosive style of leadership has taken hold, rooted in narcissism and Dark Triad traits, low in empathy, high in control and quietly destructive. It erodes confidence, silences dissent and leaves lasting harm.
'Sly and Mighty' names it, and shows you what to do next.
Drawing on an extraordinary triple perspective as a global board-level executive, leadership headhunter and acclaimed psychotherapist, Kathleen Saxton brings a uniquely full-spectrum lens to how toxic power operates, and why it is so often allowed.
Combining high-stakes case studies with the latest research on narcissism and workplace dynamics, this book helps you to:
- 🐊 Spot the warning signs early
🐊 Stop enabling what you know is wrong
🐊Decide how to challenge, navigate or leave
🐊 Reclaim your confidence and assert your agency
'Sly and Mighty' bears witness to recognition, resistance and recovery - because leadership should never diminish you, or anyone else.
Notă biografică
Kathleen Saxton is a fully qualified and accredited psychotherapist and a registered member of both the UKCP & BACP. She initially trained in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regents University and continued a further 4 years of study in Integrative and Humanistic psychotherapy at the renowned CCPE in London.
She undertook additional training in Trauma, Complex Trauma, Anxiety, Narcissism, Couples Work, Hoarding, ADHD, Sexual Abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder and Suicide over recent years, offering Trauma informed therapy as a specialism.
Across the last 10 years Kathleen has practiced at The Grove, The Priory and, in 2016, she co-founded her own clinical practice called Psyched Global in London.