Reflections on character and leadership: on the couch with Manfred Kets de Vries

Reflections on Character and Leadership is the first of the three books in the Manfred kets de Vries on the Couch series. Here, Kets de Vries looks at entrepreneurship, the pathology of leadership, and the personality of the leader. The reader will visit the disturbed inner worlds of leaders like Alexander theGreat, Shaka Zulu and Robert Maxwell, discover how to distinguish between a cold fish and a live volcano, and identify impostors, despots, organizational fools and global leaders. The book highlights the basic principles of the clinical paradigmthe process of putting organizations and the individuals who lead them on the psychoanalysts couch. It includes studies of personality archetypes and the effects they have on organizational life and cultureand the effects that organizations have on them. Referring frequently to key management concepts, Kets de Vries looks not only at what happens when things go wrong, but also at how to create the psychological and organizational space to make sure that things go right. About the series: The series offers an overview of kets de Vriess work spanning four decades, a period in which he has established himself as the leading figure in the clinical study of organizational leadership. The books in this series contain a representative selection of Kets de Vries writings about leadership from a wide variety of published sources and cover character and leadership in a global context, career development and leadership inorganizations. The original essays were all written or published between 1976and 2008. Updated where appropriate and revised by the author, they present adigest of the work of one of the most influential management thinkers of the present day.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-74242-6
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 366
• Fecha Publicación: 24/03/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés