Sean Lemson has encountered a wide variety of leaders – good, bad, and toxic – over the course of his career, including stints at PayPal, Cisco, and Nike. According to Sean, toxic leaders are a special breed of “bad” because they are capable, often without realizing it, of chasing off the best employees and slowly killing their companies. On this week’s episode, deputy reporter Maxwell Rotbart asks Sean Lemson about the most common toxic leadership archetypes: how to spot them, how to avoid becoming one of them, and how to immunize a business against their poisonous effects.