Reflections on character and leadership [[electronic resource] /] / Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910841217303321
• Autore: Kets de Vries Manfred F. R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, CA, : Jossey-Bass, c2009
• ISBN: 1-119-20646-4; 0-470-68765-7; 1-282-29165-3; 9786612291654; 0-470-74493-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Collana: On the couch with Manfred Kets de Vries
• Disciplina: 658.4; 658.4/092
• Soggetti: Leadership - Psychological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-332) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ORGANIZAT IONAL LIFE; FIRST CASE: AN ENTREPRENEUR; THE CLINICAL PARADIGM; ABOUT THIS BOOK; PART I: LEADERS, FOOLS, AND IMPOSTERS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY; CHAPTER 2: THE HYPOMANIC PERSONALITY; CHAPTER 3: THE ALEXITHYMIC EXECUTIVE; CHAPTER 4: THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME; CHAPTER 5: NEUROTIC IMPOSTORS: FEELING LIKE A FAKE; CHAPTER 6: THE ORGANIZATIONAL FOOL: BALANCING A LEADER'S HUBRIS; PART II: THE PATHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 7: PRISONERS OF LEADERSHIP; CHAPTER 8: THE SPIRIT OF DESPOTISM: UNDERSTANDING THE TYRANT WITHINCHAPTER 9: LEADERSHIP BY TERROR: FINDING SHAKA ZULU IN THE ATTIC; PART III: TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 10: 'DOING AN ALEXANDER' : LESSONS ON LEADERSHIP BY A MASTER CONQUEROR; CHAPTER 11: LEADERS WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE; CHAPTER 12: REAPING THE WHIRLWIND: MANAGING CREATIVE PEOPLE; PART IV: LEADERSHIP IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT; ; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 13: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEADER WITHIN THE GLOBAL CORPORATION; CHAPTER 14: IN SEARCH OF THE NEW EUROPEAN BUSINESS LEADER; CHAPTER 15: LESSONS FROM THE 'WILD EAST' : RUSSIAN CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIPCONCLUSION: CREATING HIGH-COMMITMENT ORGANIZATIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 the Great, 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 paradigm-the process of putting o