The Leadership Mystique

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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"This is a book that any senior executive will find enlightening, as it peels back the layers of self-deception to reveal how our hidden personalities, largely hard-wired since early childhood, affect the way we lead and manage others." Carol Kennedy, Director magazine
"This book is a real gem. The author writes with flair and precision. ... I recommend this book very highly. It is clear, timely and accessible. De Vries is a master of the elusive topic of leadership. For the busy manager and consultant, it is a valuable balance to a growing library that merely idealises and idolises leadership." HR Monthly, Australia

"Your business can have all the advantages in the world; strong financial resources, enviable market position, and state-of-the-art technology, but if leadership fails, all of these advantages melt away." - Manfred Kets de Vries

Organizations are like automobiles. They don't run themselves, except downhill.

Successful leadership today demands very different behavior from the conventional leadership tradition we are used to. It requires leaders who speak to the collective imagination of their people, co-opting them to join in the business journey; leaders who are able to motivate people to full commitment and spur them on to make that extra effort. It's all about human behavior. It's about understanding the way people and organizations behave, about creating relationships, about building commitment, and about adapting your behavior to lead in a creative and motivating way.

So, stop right now and ask yourself what you're doing about the leadership factor. How do you execute your own leadership style? Whether you work on the shop floor or have a corner office on the top floor of a shimmering skyscraper, what have you done today to be more effective as a leader?

There are no quick answers to leadership questions, and there are no easy solutions. In fact, the more we learn the more it seems there is to learn. In The Leadership Mystique, management and psychology guru Manfred Kets de Vries unpicks the many layers of complexity that underlie effective leadership, and gets to the heart of the day-to-day behavior of leading people in the human enterprise. Assess your own leadership qualities with the probing self-questionnaires and learn how to develop your skills for maximum impact as a leader.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-07-13
Mått:157 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Financial Times Series
Antal sidor:304
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Pearson Education
ISBN:9781405840194

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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 Lane (1995) (the Critics' Choice Award 1995-96), and The New Global Leaders: Percy Barnevik, Richard Branson, and David Simon (1999, with Elizabeth Florent).

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"This is an intriguing and stimulating book, full of quizzes and self-assessments, all of which can uncover what you really feel about management and how you do it."Sidney Callis, Business Executive

Innehållsförteckning

Preface1. Leadership in a dissonant voice: Using the prism of the clinical paradigmIntroducing key issuesThe centrality of the clinical paradigm2. Emotional intelligence in the world of workIntelligence as a multifaceted attributeA closer look at emotional intelligenceHoning the sub-skills of emotional intelligenceA mood too far: Managing emotional extremesThe core conflictual relationship themeDeepening our understanding of our inner theaterEscaping psychic prison3. The mussel syndromeCorporate consequences of the mussel syndromeThe changing organizational paradigmCompanies that endure4. The failure factor in leadershipExecutive behavior: Myth and realityRational and irrational behaviorDysfunctional patterns in leadershipThe transference trapThe impact of narcissism5. The dynamics of successionMidlife dilemmasThe life-cycle of a CEOGenerational envy6. The Dilbert phenomenonThe deadness withinResuscitating “dead” leadersWhole-life strategy versus deferred-life strategyThe tragedies of success and near-successA summary prescription for revitalization &; 7. The rot at the topNeurotic styles and organizationsThe dramatic personality/organizationThe suspicious personality/organizationThe detached personality/organizationThe depressive personality/organizationThe compulsive personality/organizationCase examplesAn organizational vicious circle8. Achieving personal and organizational changeThe process of changeThe dynamics of individual changeThe dynamics of organizational transformationLeadership strategies for implementing change9. Characteristics of effective leadershipLeadership models10. Leadership in a global contextThe wheel of cultureIdentifying global leadership abilitiesGlobal leadership development11. Roles leaders playLeadership versus managementThe dual roles of leadership12. Leadership developmentSelection problemsDevelopmental tasksLeadership in the “digital age”13. Authentizotic organizationsThe best companies to work forThe “healthy” individual bsp;Characteristics of the “authentizotic” organizationThe gender question14. Final thoughtsSuggested further reading 7