Your business can have all the advantages in the world; strong financial resources, enviable market position, and state-of-the-art technology, but if leadership fails, all of these advantages melt away. - Manfred Kets de Vries Organizations are like automobiles. They don't run themselves, except downhill. Leadership now, requires very different behavior from the leadership tradition we are used to. It requires leaders who speak to the collective imagination of their people, co-opting them to join in the business journey; leaders who are able to motivate people to full commitment and have them make that extra effort. It's all about human behavior. It's about understanding the way people and organizations behave, about creating relationships, about building commitment, and about adapting your behavior to lead in a creative and motivating way. So, ask yourself what you're doing about the leadership factor. How do you execute your own leadership style? Whether you work on the shop floor or have a corner office on the top floor of a shimmering skyscraper, what have you done today to be more effective as a leader? There are no quick answers to leadership questions, and there are no eas

The Leadership Mystique: A User's Manual for the Human Enterprise

Business & Money

Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries

Management & Leadership

Pearson FT Press

The basic premise of Organizational Paradoxes is as relevant today as when it was first published fourteen years ago - to help individuals in organizations make sense of the things happening around them and within them. The themes of power, paranoia, work disorders, leadership and followership, alienation, folie a deux, and the vicissitudes of the career life cycle remain central concerns. Presented in the form of case vignettes of people in boundary situations or coping with major life changes, Kets de Vries illustrates the various strata of working life. Organizational Paradoxes takes the reader on a journey into the individual's personal 'underworld'. Its primary objective remains to help the reader understand the inner theatre of leaders and followers. It looks at the deep structure of the executive's world, and tries to extricate some of the wishes, fears and anxieties prevalent in the world of organizations. This is not, however, a 'quick-fix' solution for the executive keen to improve his working life. By urging the reader to practise the self-observation that leads to self-understanding, Kets de Vries reveals that this is an essential quality of leadership.

Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management

Routledge

Provides vital insights into the psychodynamics of the family firm which are essential to understand as the businesses expand and face such dilemmas as whether to remain a family business and how to pass on leadership to the next generation.

Family Business: Human Dilemmas in the Family Firm : Text and Cases

Intl Thomson Business Pr

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.  This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1980 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical approaches to management (International Behavioural and Social Sciences, Classics from the Tavistock Press)

Organizational paradoxes: Clinical approaches to management

Tavistock

Family Business on the Couch: A Psychological Perspective

Randel S. Carlock

Pieter Witteveen

Eric Wiebs

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

wiley

In this book of insightful essays, Kets de Vries explodes the myth that rationality is what governs the behavior of leaders and followers, and he provides a more realistic perspective on organizational functioning and the leader-follower relationship. The author shows that a great potential for distortion exists when leaders try to act out the fantasies of their followers, and explores the many psychological traps into which leaders frequently fall.Citing examples from business, history, literature, the arts, and from his own psychoanalytic and management-consulting practise, the author identifies distinct leader types. He describes, for instance, the narcissist whose drive for power and prestige can bring much-needed vitality to an organization, but whose inability to accept criticism ultimately creates a climate of subservience. He shows that entrepreneurs possess many of the qualities of the impostor, including a capacity for self-dramatization and a deep understanding of how to profit by others' wishes and desires, and he explains why entrepreneurs sometimes distort the truth about themselves and their organizations.Through numerous case studies of successful and failed leaders, Leaders, Fools, and Impostors furthers a better understanding of the leader-follower dynamic, and gives leaders the means to transform themselves.

Leaders, Fools and Impostors: Essays on the Psychology of Leadership

iUniverse

World-renowned management guru Kets de Vries presents eclectic commentaries on how things really work in business. Capturing the essence of the irrationalities that pervade our organizations & compromise our leaders, he offers useful ideas about what makes organizations tick & why they & the people in them ultimately succeed or fail. He not only deciphers problems that are common in organizational life but also sheds light on some of the underlying dimensions that often go unnoticed. Covers entrepreneurship, families in business, change & downsizing, women as leaders, balancing work & pleasure, & managing acquisitions.

Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane: Essays on Irrational Organizations and Their Leaders

Economics

Diane Pub Co.

Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive? Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic types and arrives at some genuine insights into why some companies are healthier than others.

The Neurotic Organization

Danny Miller

Harpercollins

The Hedgehog Effect: The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams

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