LEADER 05151nam 22004935 450 001 9911021151503321 005 20250819130254.0 010 $a3-031-88330-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-88330-9 035 $a(CKB)40378567200041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32265626 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32265626 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-88330-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940378567200041 100 $a20250819d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Path to Individual and Organizational Transformation $eConfronting the Elephant in the Room /$fby Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (232 pages) 225 1 $aThe Palgrave Kets de Vries Library,$x2730-759X 311 08$a3-031-88329-2 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The clinical paradigm -- Chapter 3: Human dilemmas in leadership -- Chapter 4: Socio-dynamics -- Chapter 5: The coaching conundrum -- Chapter 6: Teams & company -- Chapter 7: The leadership audit -- Chapter 8: The three mental triangles -- Chapter 9: Deconstructing the individual change process -- Chapter 10: Creating a transitional space -- Chapter 11: Navigating the maze of organizational transformation -- Chapter 12: The process of letting go -- Chapter 13: The holistic picture: culture and organization -- Chapter 14: The senior executive ?recycling? workshops -- Chapter 15: Major life themes -- Chapter 16: The authentizotic puzzle -- Chapter 17: Love and work. 330 $aChange can be hard, and for many people, unlearning habitual patterns is an uphill challenge. It can be painful, but not as painful as remaining stuck. With an estimated 70% of change initiatives failing, Manfred Kets de Vries, a world renowed Professor of Leadership Development, offers a more positive outlook. Infused with his trademark inimitable style of analysis, he demonstrates how change methodologies can be applied in a highly effective way. At the heart of effective organizations lies human action?what we do, how we do it, and why we do it. As leaders, consultants and executive coaches we need to pay close attention to the individual and group dynamics of the organizations that we work with. By looking more deeply into the world of work with the aim of untangling and explaining what lies below the surface, this book helps you see through the darkness that may lead us astray, yet this kind of ?night vision??efforts to turn the irrational into the rational?requires in-depth observation. To find out what is really happening demands a more clinical orientation. To be successful, Kets de Vries argues, leaders need to recognize the importance of what have been referred to as ?soft skills?, essentially using emotional intelligence to their advantage. Contrary to their name, these abilities are often the ?hardest? skills to learn. Adopting a clinical approach to leadership, this book helps you to understand more about the dynamics of organizational life, leading to greater self-awareness, self-knowledge, and the ability to become a more effective change agent. By becoming aware not only of our conscious thoughts, but also of our unconscious prejudices, biases and habits it?s possible to understand more why so many well-laid plans and strategies derail or, conversely, why otherwise effective leaders sometimes act in unexpected ways. Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries is the Distinguished Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change at INSEAD, the Founder of INSEAD?s Global Leadership Centre, Program Director of INSEAD?s top management program, ?The Challenge of Leadership: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence? and the Founder of INSEAD Executive Master?s program in Change Management. He is also the Founder-Chairman of the Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI), a boutique leadership development consulting firm. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, Harvard Business Review, El Pais and the Economist have rated him among the world?s leading management thinkers. As a global consultant in executive leadership development, his clients have included many of the most important global organizations. He is the author of almost sixty books and hundreds of articles, the recipient of numerous awards, including four honorary doctorates. 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Phase Velocity; 1.4 Alternative Ways of Representing Harmonic Waves; 1.5 Group Velocity; 1.6 The Doppler Effect; CHAPTER 2 - The Vectorial Nature of Light; 2.1 General Remarks; 2.2 Energy Flow. The Poynting Vector; 2.3 Linear Polarization; 2.4 Circular and Elliptic Polarization; 2.5 Matrix Representation of Polarization. The Jones Calculus 327 $a2.6 Reflection and Refraction at a Plane Boundary2.7 Amplitudes of Reflected and Refracted Waves.; 2.8 The Brewster Angle; 2.9 The Evanescent Wave in Total Reflection; 2.10 Phase Changes in Total Internal Reflection; 2.11 Reflection Matrix; CHAPTER 3 - Coherence and Interference; 3.1 The Principle of Linear Superposition; 3.2 Young's Experiment; 3.3 The Michelson Interferometer; 3.4 Theory of Partial Coherence. Visibility of Fringes; 3.5 Coherence Time and Coherence Length; 3.6 Spectral Resolution of a Finite Wave Train. Coherence and Line Width; 3.7 Spatial Coherence 327 $a3.8 Intensity Interferometry3.9 Fourier Transform Spectroscopy; CHAPTER 4 - Multiple-Beam Interference; 4.1 Interference with Multiple Beams; 4.2 The Fabry-Perot Interferometer; 4.3 Resolution of Fabry-Perot Instruments; 4.4 Theory of Multilayer Films; CHAPTER 5 - Diffraction; 5.1 General Description of Diffraction; 5.2 Fundamental Theory; 5.3 Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction; 5.4 Fraunhofer Diffraction Patterns; 5.5 Fresnel Diffraction Patterns; 5.6 Applications of the Fourier Transform to Diffraction; 5.7 Reconstruction of the Wave Front by Diffraction. Holography 327 $aCHAPTER 6 - Optics of Solids6.1 General Remarks; 6.2 Macroscopic Fields and Maxwell's Equations; 6.3 The General Wave Equation; 6.4 Propagation of Light in Isotropic Dielectrics. Dispersion; 6.5 Propagation of Light in Conducting Media; 6.6 Reflection and Refraction at the Boundary of an Absorbing Medium; 6.7 Propagation of Light in Crystals; 6.8 Double Refraction at a Boundary; 6.9 Optical Activity; 6.10 Faraday Rotation in Solids; 6.11 Other Magneto-optic and Electro-optic Effects; 6.12 Nonlinear Optics; CHAPTER 7 - Thermal Radiation and Light Quanta; 7.1 Thermal Radiation 327 $a7.2 Kirchhoff's Law. Blackbody Radiation7.3 Modes of Electromagnetic Radiation in a Cavity; 7.4 Classical Theory of Blackbody Radiation. The Rayleigh-Jeans Formula; 7.5 Quantization of Cavity Radiation; 7.6 Photon Statistics. Planck's Formula; 7.7 The Photoelectric Effect and the Detection of Individual Photons; 7.8 Momentum of a Photon. Light Pressure; 7.9 Angular Momentum of a Photon; 7.10 Wavelength of a Material Particle. de Broglie's Hypothesis; 7.11 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; CHAPTER 8 - Optical Spectra; 8.1 General Remarks; 8.2 Elementary Theory of Atomic Spectra 327 $a8.3 Quantum Mechanics 330 $aThis incisive text provides a basic undergraduate-level course in modern optics for students in physics, technology and engineering. The first half of the book deals with classical physical optics; the second principally with the quantum nature of light. Chapters 1 and 2 treat the propagation of light waves, including the concepts of phase and group velocities, and the vectorial nature of light. 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