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ESMT Annual Forum - 24.06.2010 ESMT Annual Forum Manfred Kets de Vries was a panelist at the third annual ESMT forum in Berlin on June 16th & 17th 2010, speaking on the subject of People: Leading for Sustainability.
"Strategy and Business" - 16.06.2010 "Strategy and Business" An interview with Manfred Kets de Vries, on the impact of the chief executive's personality on the performance of a company and a clarification on how self-awareness can break the destructive pattern of corporate narcissism.
The Family Business: A Psychodynamic-Systemic Point of View - 10.06.2010 The Family Business: A Psychodynamic-Systemic Point of View Manfred spoke to an audience of one thousand participants at the World Family Business Forum in São Paulo on May 19, 2010. This was the second annual conference of its kind, totally devoted to family business topics. The conference was led by John Davis and organized by HSM, a global conference company. His presentation was on The Family Business: A Psychodynamic-Systemic Point of View.

Comportamento na escola pode definir líder do futuro, diz especialista -newspaper article about Manfred and the conference in the Brazilian paper Economia & Negocios, 13th May 2010.
Inauguration of Instituto Humani - 15.05.2010 Instituto Humani Manfred Kets de Vries was present at the inauguration of the Instituto Humani in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The Institute’s ambition is to transmit and develop the Clinical Paradigm in South America, through practice and research.
50 most influential business thinkers of 2009 - 10.12.2009 The Thinkers 50 rated Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries as one of the 50 most influential business thinkers of 2009. The Thinkers is a bi-annual ranking of the world's foremost business thinkers.

Thinkers are ranked on a 1 – 10 scale using the following criteria:
Originality of ideas
Practicality of ideas
Presentation style
Written communication
Loyalty of followers
Business sense
International outlook
Rigor of research
Impact of Ideas
“Guru” factor
ISPSO votes for new Distinguished Member - 9.06.2009 The International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO) unanimously voted Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries to become a Distinguished Member.

This is a rare honour, so far only conferred to three other members: Harry Levinson, Harold Bridger and Gordon Lawrence.

The status of Distinguished Member is awarded to a member:
1. Whose work has had a significant and lasting impact on the field
2. Whose work has been recognized in the wider arena of work with organizations( impact beyond those organizations and journals typically associated with the psychoanalytic study of organizations)
3. Who has clearly displayed intellectual leadership in the field
4. Who has acted as an influential teacher and mentor to others
How can Leadership Be Taught - 9.06.2009 09.06.2009
Harvard Business School colloquium: "How can Leadership Be Taught." Manfred Kets de Vries was a session presenter at this symposium aimed at sharing pedagogical practices to enable the discovery of a wide variety of different approaches to teaching leadership.

01.07.2009
The second ESMT Annual Forum: "Leading in Turbulent Times - Opportunities, Threats and the World Economy" in Berlin had Manfred Kets de Vries as a panellist at the on the subject of Leading in Turbulent Times.
International Leadership Association honors Kets de Vries - 12.11.2008 International Leadership Association honors Manfred Kets de Vries with the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award in Los Angeles, during the ILA annual conference.

This very prestigious organization was for the first time, honoring "founding professionals in the development of leadership as a field and as a discipline." Manfred was inducted with Bernard Bass & Joseph Rost (posthumously), Warren Bennis, James MacGregor Burns, and Frances Hesselbein -a truly stellar group of leadership pioneers.
The Financial Times about The Leader on the Couch book - 1.12.2006 12.2006
The Financial Times voted Manfred Kets de Vries' book, The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations one of the top business books of 2006.

04.2006
An interview with Manfred Kets de Vries in the INSEAD Alumni News about his work and the new INSEAD Global Leadership Centre.