You Can't Make a Tomelette without Breaking Some Greggs: Toxic Management Lessons from "Succession" (and What to Do Instead)

HBR's Antidote to the Logan Roy School of Toxic Leadership

For four unforgettable seasons, Succession has riveted viewers inside and outside the business world. Too absurd to be true, too real to truly be fiction, corporate patriarch Logan Roy, his feuding children, and the executives of Waystar Royco have kept us rapt. Every week the show has dominated office chatter and flooded Slack channels with expletive-laden memes, quotes, and insults.

But does the series offer any insights of real-wor...