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Record Nr.

UNISA996211213403316

Autore

Kets de Vries Manfred F. R

Titolo

The leader on the couch [[electronic resource] ] : a clinical approach to changing people and organizations / / Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, c2006

ISBN

1-119-99560-4

1-119-20903-X

1-280-72124-3

9786610721245

0-470-03296-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (437 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/092

658.4092

Soggetti

Leadership - Psychological aspects

Executives - Psychology

Organizational behavior

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: THE CLINICAL PARADIGM; CHAPTER 2: THE NARCISSISTIC LEADER: MYTH AND REALITY; CHAPTER 3: A PARADE OF PERSONALITIES; CHAPTER 4: LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS: MOVING AWAY FROM PEOPLE; CHAPTER 5: LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS: MOVING AGAINST PEOPLE; CHAPTER 6: ELATION AND ITS VICISSITUDES; CHAPTER 7: THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME: THE SHADOW SIDE OF SUCCESS; CHAPTER 8: CAN LEADERS CHANGE? YES, BUT ONLY IF THEY WANT TO; CHAPTER 9: TAKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED; CHAPTER 10: COACH OR COUCH, ANYBODY?; CHAPTER 11: GROUP LEADERSHIP COACHING

CHAPTER 12: THE UNCONSCIOUS LIFE OF GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONSCHAPTER 13: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF ORGANIZATIONS; CHAPTER 14: CONCLUSION: CREATING "AUTHENTIZOTIC" ORGANIZATIONS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life has typically been hostile to the inner world of feeling. Rationality is



deemed superior to feeling, which can contaminate judgment. But without feeling there is no passion, and no action. This book sets out to change people and organizations for the better, by revealing the 'dark side' of leadership behaviour and its impact on performance. Tapping into the startling parallels between the journey to emotional intelligence, the process of psychoanalysis, the practice of leadership coaching and the Zen journey to enlighte