Reflections on Leadership and Career

Reflections on Leadership and Career Development is the second of the three books in the Manfred kets de Vries on the Couch series.Here, kets de Vries takes an in-depth look at the way basic psychological processes operate on individual and corporate performance and analyses these in the context of case studies of leaders and organizations, including a lengthy study of Vladimir Putin, as "CEO of Russia, Inc.". The third part of the book examines the career life cycle and how executives cope (or fail to cope) with rites de passage like succession and retirement.The chapters in this book take different perspectives on the intimate connection between individuals' personality or "inner theatre" and the organizational context in which they work, how different personality types, in positions of leadership or as members of management teams, affect the functioning and success of organizations.

Manfred Kets de Vries brings a much-needed fresh perspective to the subjects of leadership and change, drawing on his knowledge of economics, management psychology, and psychoanalysis.

He is Clinical Professor of Leadership at INSEAD, where he holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development. He is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership Development Research at the the European School of Management Technology (ESMT), Berlin. He has also held professorships at McGill University the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commercials in Montreal, and Harvard Business School, and has lectured at management institutions all over the world. he is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books including The Leader on the Couch and Family Business on the Couch, and over 300 articles and papers.

In November 2008, Manfred Kets de Vries was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Leadership Association in Los Angeles. He and six Others were inducted into the Leadership Legacy Project as "founding professionals of the development of leadership as a field and as a discipline.'" Previously, in 2005, he as the first non-American recipient of the ILA Leadership Award for his 'contributions to the classroom and the boardroom. He is listed as one of the Top 50 Management Thinkers of the world for 2009. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftwoche and the Economist have also judged him one of the world's leading thinkers on leadership.

Introduction	p. ix
About This Book	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
The Origins Of Leadership	p. l
Introduction	p. 2
Narcissism and Leadership	p. 5
Why Follow the Leader?	p. 22
The Dance of Leaders and Followers	p. 34
Listening with the Third Ear	p. 59
Leadership And Personality	p. 75
Introduction	p. 76
Vladimir Putin, CEO of Russia, Inc.: The Legacy and the Future	p. 79
'Complex' Executives I Have 'Met' in Coaching and Consulting	p. 100
Leadership Archetypes: A New Organizational Constellation	p. 121
Leadership And Career Development	p. 157
Introduction	p. 158
Midlife-Stop the World, I Want to Get Off	p. 161
The CEO Life Cycle	p. 184
The Retirement Syndrome-The Psychology of Letting Go	p. 201
Conclusion: The Twice-Born Experience	p. 220
References	p. 233
Index	p. 242
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