This is the excellent This Working Life podcast - Lisa Leong talking to Alex Haslam on the subject.  He is one of the authors of the paper. 

Alex is a Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology and Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland 

Here is the AFR article by Euan Black on zombie Leadership: 

Good points in the AFR article by Professor Haslam:

Once you make it all about ‘me’ and not about ‘us’, well, you destroy the very thing that you’re meant to be fixing,” 

He told The Australian Financial Review that leadership is about influencing and mobilising others and therefore cannot be understood without studying a leader’s followers. But zombie leadership, as perpetuated by popular books, consultants, academics, HR practices and the media, puts leaders at the centre of the conversation by perpetuating the myth that leadership is a special skill limited to special people.

From Lisa Leong: “There are four key misunderstandings that underpin Zombie Leadership... 1. Only leaders can lead. 2. Leaders have qualities that set them apart from ordinary people. 3. Group success should only be attributed to leaders. 4. History is ultimately the story of great leaders. These Zombie Leadership beliefs are, unfortunately, propagated by academia, consultants, policy makers and popular media.”

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