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Leader on the Couch A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations

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ISBN-10: 0470030798

ISBN-13: 9780470030790

Edition: 2006

Authors: Manfred Kets De Vries

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Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life typically remains hostile to the world of feeling. Yet without feeling there is no passion or action. The things that matter most to us all have emotional meaning, and this is just as true in organizations as in our personal lives. In The Leader on the Couch, world-renowned business thinker Manfred Kets de Vries explores the role of emotion in personality, leadership, decision-making and group dynamics, and shows how to change today's leaders and organizations for the better by helping us understand the 'shadow side' of leadership behaviour.
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Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/22/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 440
Size: 6.30" wide x 8.96" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Manfred Kets De Vries holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Human Resource Management at INSEAD, is program director of INSEAD's top management program, "The Challenge of Leadership: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence", and is also co-program director of INSEAD/HEC joint program "Coaching and Consulting for Change." The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche , and The Economist have called Manfred Kets de Vries one of Europe's leading management thinkers. Kets de Vries is the author, co-author, or editor of 17 books, including Power and the Corporate Mind, Organizations on the Couch , Leaders, Fools and Impostors , the prize-winning Life and Death in the Executive Fast…    

Preface
Introduction: The Clinical Paradigm
Giving the unconscious its due
Tapping into psychoanalytic theories and techniques
Philosophical underpinnings of the clinical paradigm
The inner theater
Motivational need systems
Core conflictual relationship themes
Using the clinical paradigm to rewrite dysfunctional scripts
References
Entering the Inner Theater of Leaders
The Narcissistic Leader: Myth And Reality
Back to the future
Two modern myths: healthy neglect and tough love
Narcissistic personality disorders
Another fine Messier
Lost in space: introducing the T-word
Downsizing the narcissist
References
A Parade of Personalities
A question of character
Assessing leaders and followers
The dramatic disposition
The dramatic individual within the organization
The controlling disposition
The controlling individual within the organization
The dependent disposition
The dependent individual within the organization
The self-defeating disposition
The self-defeating individual within the organization
References
Leaders And Followers: Moving Away From People
The detached disposition
The detached individual within the organization
The depressive disposition
Depressives within the organization
References
Leaders And Followers: Moving Against People
The abrasive disposition
Abrasives within the organization
The paranoid disposition
The paranoid disposition within the organization
The negativistic disposition
The negativistic individual within the organization
The antisocial disposition
Antisocials within the organization
Prototypes and beyond
An overview of the spectrum of personalities
References
Elation And Its Vicissitudes
The gift and curse of charisma
The sirens of hypomania
Surviving the "maniac"
References
The Impostor Syndrome: The Shadow Side of Success
Being a fraud versus feeling fraudulent
The fear of success
The dread of not living up to expectations
Infecting the organization
A search for origins
The light at the end of the tunnel
References
Changing Mindsets
Can Leaders Change? Yes, But Only If They Want To
Why ride a dead horse?
Change and the triangle of mental life
Triangle of mental life
Hitting your head against the wall
The CEO "recycling" seminar
Looking in on "the challenge of leadership"
Theoretical underpinnings
References
Taking The Road Less Traveled
Owning your own life
Preparing for the journey
Case study
Catalysts for change
Identifying the problem
Major themes for executives
The triangle of conflict
Triangle of conflict
Unhooking "false connections"
Triangle of relationships
Linking the past with the present
Creating a holding environment
Actively working on the problem
Restructuring the inner theater
Keeping on track
Consolidating the change
Making the best of a poor hand of cards
References
Coach Or Couch, Anybody?
Who are the clients?
What is leadership coaching?
Short-term psychotherapy versus leadership coaching
The coaching parade
The fundamentals of coaching: why and how
What makes for coaching success?
The vicissitudes of leadership coaching
References
Group Leadership Coaching
A case in point
Getting started
Gathering data
Sample personal graph
Sample personality audit graph
Group leadership coaching dynamics
Creating high-EQ teams
Leadership group coaching
Making group leadership coaching work in executive teams
The role of commitment and follow-up
The role of storytelling
The role of trust
References
Understanding the Psychodynamics of Groups and Organizations
The Unconscious Life Of Groups And Organizations
Basic group assumptions
The organizational ideal
Neurotic organizations
Organizational archetypes
Strengths of each style
Placing leaders on the couch
References
Unraveling The Mystery Of Organizations
Clinical organizational interventions
Focal areas of intervention
The prickly CEO
Through the looking glass: the Stratec collusion
Consulting with the third ear
Connecting with a clinically informed consultant
Staying in for the long haul
Emulating Sherlock Holmes
References
Conclusion: Creating "Authentizotic" Organizations
Transcending the leadership crisis
True self versus false self
Authenticity: beyond the gulag organization
References
Index