Many people, myself included, have seen or maybe even had a supervisor who did not have or attempt to cultivate a leadership skill or style. Moreover, this lack of skill is reinforced by societal toxic standards such as: “It’s lonely at the top” or jokes, “To be in charge, you have to be an asshole.” After I had gotten out of military contracting, I personally witnessed somebody higher up in a factory where I worked at the time publicly chastising and humiliating an employee. And I distinctly remember thinking to myself, if that was me, I would calmly pull him to the side and tell him how this is not an acceptable behavior. Additionally, if that was one of my soldiers, one of my people, I would not bother pulling him to the side to explain it to him. It took me a while to realize that civilian life is not a culture of leadership juxtaposed to the military. Well, adjusting to civilian life can be too difficult; however, service members make that transition every day. Then, I started running into toxic leadership that directly affected me. One of the not-so-toxic supervisors who actually knew me and recommended that I write a book on leadership. Subsequently, another one that was not toxic at all recommended that I do public speaking about leadership. More recently, knowing that leadership was one of my fortes, a friend of mine who was recently....