"M&As: The untold story"
This blog looks at the very human factors are at play in mergers and acquisitions. Paying attention to them can increase ones chance of success.
INSEAD Knowledge, 2016
Read more"Effective vs ineffective global leaders"
Global Leadership from A to Z: Creating High Commitment Organizations
This article explores what leaders have to do to be effective. What roles do they have to play? What distinguishes an effective leader from an ineffective global leader?
Published on 1 Jun, 2002
The Hedgehog Effect: The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams
In this book, Manfred Kets de Vries presents the case for leadership group coaching as an experiential training ground for learning to function as a high performance team.
Published on 15 Nov, 2011
"Effective group work by the pygmies"
High Performance Teams: Lessons from the Pygmies
This article describe the best practices for effective work teams, using the pygmies of the African rain forest as a metaphor for effective group work.
Published on 1 Dec, 1999
"Eight roles for leadership effectiveness"
The Eight Archetypes of Leadership
This blog entry with the Harvard Business Review addresses a number of recurring patterns of behavior or "archetypes" that influence an individual’s effectiveness within an organisation.
Published on 18 Dec, 2013
"Effectiveness of group leadership coaching"
Leadership Group Coaching in Action: The Zen of Creating High Performance Teams
This article advocates the effectiveness of group leadership coaching. A change methodology centered on group coaching for high-performance teams is proposed.
Published on 1 Feb, 2005
Reflections on Group & Organizations
Reflections on Groups and Organisations is the third and final book in the On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries series. This book examines concepts of organisational health, performance, and change.
Published on 18 Jan, 2011
"The character of high performing organisations"
La Confiance au Coeur des Valeurs de l'Enterprise
Manfred Kets de Vries analyses the characteristics common to the most highly performing organisations.
Published on 7 Mar, 2001
"The eight archetypes of effective leadership"
Leadership Archetypes: An Exposition
In this working paper, it is argued that successful organisations are characterised by a distributive, collective, complementary form of leadership.
Published on 5 Jul, 2005
Beware of the cultish techniques that have crossed into the workplace
Why would anyone be attracted to a cult? Many businesses have cult-like characteristics which, on one hand, can provide structure and order, on the other, they can breed paranoia and stifle creative thinking.
Published on 2 Nov, 2018
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