Takes the reader on a journey into the individual's personal 'underworld'. This book helps the reader understand the inner theatre of leaders and followers. It looks at the structure of the executive's world, and tries to extricate some of the wishes, fears, and anxieties prevalent in the world of o[...]
Reflections on Groups and Organizations is the third and final book in the On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries series. Broadening the Kets De Vries canvas, this book examines concepts of organizational health, performance, and change. Material ranges from studies of high performance teams - b[...]
In "The Hedgehog Effect," Manfred Kets de Vries presents the case for leadership group coaching as an experiential training ground for learning to function as a high performance team. His group coaching model, incorporating living case studies, has been developed over more than 20 years of deliverin[...]
World-renowned leadership expert Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries draws on his extensive experience in group leadership coaching to provide an in-depth look at the coaching process through the lens of psychodynamic mindfulness, considering the diversity of individual and organizational learning. Kets de [...]
Intended for senior executives, this book reveals how our hidden personalities, largely hard-wired since early childhood, affect the way we lead and manage others.[...]
What makes despotic leaders tick? How do they become despots? On a lesser (but far more common) scale: why are some people ruthlessly abrasive in the workplace? Why do some business leaders appear to lose their sense of humanity? How and why do they create a culture of fear, uncertainty and doubt in[...]