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Quo Vadis?  The Existential Challenges of Leaders

Quo Vadis? The Existential Challenges of Leaders

A short and reflective book that addresses age-old questions about the human condition in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, it turns an unblinking light on the things we push aside and then turns us to face them.

The Palgrave Kets De Vries Library, Dec 2020

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Workplace Intelligence: Unconscious Forces and How to Manage

Workplace Intelligence: Unconscious Forces and How to Manage

Anton Obholzer's new book provides insights into the unconscious processes at play in the workplace and an introduction to a balanced approach to organisations. 

Routledge, Nov 2020

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The CEO Whisperer: Meditations on Leadership, Life, and Change

The CEO Whisperer: Meditations on Leadership, Life, and Change

At this critical junction in the history of humankind, leaders that are proficient in magical thinking aren’t going to solve our problems. Creating alternative realities is not the answer. We need a very different kind of leadership―leaders who can resist the calls of regression and whose outlook is firmly based in reality. We need leaders who analyse and draw conclusions from, or use their own experiences as a development tool, face their strengths and weaknesses, and critique their own experiences in order to build new understandings.

The Palgrave Kets de Vries Library, Nov 2020

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Journeys into Coronavirus Land: Lessons from a pandemic

Journeys into Coronavirus Land: Lessons from a pandemic

Our journey together through the pandemic can lead us down a path of division or a more hopeful path of mutual responsibility, reconciliation and true renewal, ensuring healthier organisations and a better society for our children and future generations. In his latest book Journeys through Coronavirus Land, Manfred Kets de Vries takes us through his ruminations during confinement, widening his explorations into group phenomenon, leadership and organisational dynamics and economic and environmental crisis. The central question is, how have each of us responded to this adversity and where will this journey lead us, individually and collectively?

 

This book is available as a free download. A donation to Unicef Save Generation Covid i strongly encouraged..

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Jul 2020

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Down the Rabbit Hole of Leadership: Leadership Pathology in Everyday Life

Down the Rabbit Hole of Leadership: Leadership Pathology in Everyday Life

In the previous book in this series, Manfred Kets de Vries observed the experiences of leaders on a rollercoaster ride through their professional and personal lives. Now, he follows them down the rabbit hole into the unknown, where, like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, they find a dystopian Wonderland in which everyone seems to have gone mad and life functions according to its own crazy logic, throwing up all kinds of obstacles in the search for truth.

Palgrave MacMillan, Nov 2018

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The Malay Leadership Mystique

The Malay Leadership Mystique

In his book entitled “The Malay Leadership Mystique” (inspired by his mentor Manfred Kets de Vries' 2006 book, “The Leadership Mystique”), Dr Vaseehar Hassan explores why, despite their success in Government and the professions, Malays have underperformed as business leaders in comparison to other ethnic groups in Malaysia. Vaseehar’s study demonstrates the importance of cross-cultural, psychodynamic considerations in understanding and addressing the adaptive challenges faced by Malays in the business arena.

 

As a Senior Associate of KDVI, Vaseehar focuses on top team alignment and organisational development, as well as executive coaching.

August Publishing Sdn Bhd, Mar 2018

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The White Raven, or the King Who No Longer Knew Himself

The White Raven, or the King Who No Longer Knew Himself

"Fairy tales explore the boundaries between reality and fantasy and between the animate and inanimate world. When we enter these “other worlds,” there is good possibility that we will return to our own world with a new awareness, and with a new sense of energy, and hope." - Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

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Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom: How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After (리더는어떻게평면표지 translated into Korean)

Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom: How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After (리더는어떻게평면표지 translated into Korean)

We know where we are with a fairy story. There is a cast of predictable characters, the hero or heroine is submitted to terrible trials, cruelty, and injustice but in the end the baddies get their comeuppance, good triumphs, and everyone lives happily ever after. In this book Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of leadership, and a pioneering practitioner in the field of psychodynamic executive coaching, draws on the format of traditional fairy tales and tells us five stories that dramatize five key themes of dysfunctional leadership. Now available in Korean 리더는어떻게평면표지, Doublebook, Seoul, Republic of Korea, March 2017.

Doublebook, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Mar 2017

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Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster

Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster

A collection of short, bite-sized nuggets of insight into the psychological ups and downs of the leadership journey from one of the world’s top thinkers on leadership. 

Palgrave MacMillan, Dec 2016

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The White Raven, the Bear-King, and Other Grim Tales

The White Raven, the Bear-King, and Other Grim Tales

A young prince who resists the spell of the evil goblin with the help of a raven, a king who turns into a bear to expel the monster in him, four brothers, each with a unique gift, facing a common dilemma—these are some of the characters in this collection of fairy tales, each story reflecting our deepest fears and desires. Join author Manfred Kets de Vries as he takes you on a journey where heroes and heroines face dragons, crones, lions and wicked stepmothers in their search for the elusive “happily ever after”.

KDVI Press, Jul 2016

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You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger

This book is all about helping coaches to become more effective. Each chapter presents a profile of a particular type of toxic executive—the narcissist, psychopath, cold fish, obsessive-compulsive, and many more—and offers coaches examples of interventions that have worked—and those that haven't. Kets de Vries offers expert advice from the front line of working with puzzling executives.

Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2015

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Coach and Couch (2nd edition)

Coach and Couch (2nd edition)

This book is a volume of essays on leadership development topics written by academics, coaches, and change consultants.

Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2015

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Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom

Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom

In this book Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of leadership, and a pioneering practitioner in the field of psychodynamic executive coaching, draws on the format of traditional fairy tales and tells us five stories that dramatize five key themes of dysfunctional leadership.

Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2015

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Mindful Leadership Coaching: Journeys into the Interior

Mindful Leadership Coaching: Journeys into the Interior

This book provides an in-depth look at the coaching process, considering the diversity of both individual and organisational learning through the lens of psychodynamic mindfulness.

Palgrave Macmillan, Apr 2014

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The Trigger Zone

The Trigger Zone

The Trigger Zone outlines the contours of the neuro-psycho-dynamic approach to change management.

Mediawerf , Jan 2013

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Leadership Development

Leadership Development

This authoritative volume brings together a critical selection of important academic articles and practitioner-oriented papers that reflect current thinking and practices in the growing field of leadership development.

Edward Elgar, Dec 2011

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The Hedgehog Effect: The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams

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.

Jossey-Bass, Nov 2011

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Tricky Coaching: Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching

Tricky Coaching: Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching

This book brings together cases written by experienced leadership and executive coaches from all over the world and explores the most demanding and challenging situations they have faced in their professional practices.

Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2011

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Reflections on Group & Organizations

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.

Jossey-Bass, Jan 2011

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The Coaching Kaleidoscope: Insights from the Inside

The Coaching Kaleidoscope: Insights from the Inside

The book deals with how coaching interventions can drive a journey of transformational change at individual, team and organisational levels.

Palgrave Macmillan, Jul 2010

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The Anarchist Within

The Anarchist Within

This book highlights a number of salient aspects of the culture and character of Russia (now the Commonwealth of Independent States) to facilitate an informed understanding of the way Russians deal with organizations and approach leadership style.

 

Aquamarine Books, Jun 2009

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Sex, Money, Happiness and Death: The Quest for Authenticity

Sex, Money, Happiness and Death: The Quest for Authenticity

Manfred Kets de Vries takes readers out of their comfort zone in this book. It intends to focus executives on what really counts in their lives and to shake academics down from their ivory towers and make them more attuned to the real problems of real people, instead of trying to impress each other.

Palgrave Macmillan, Apr 2009

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Reflections on Character and Leadership

Reflections on Character and Leadership

In this book, Manfred Kets de Vries offers an overview of his work spanning four decades, a period in which he has established himself as the leading figure in the clinical study of organisational leadership.

Jossey-Bass, Mar 2009

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Reflections on Leadership and Career Development

Reflections on Leadership and Career Development

Reflections on Leadership and Career Development is the second of the three books in the Manfred Kets de Vries on the Couch series. This book takes an in-depth look at the way basic psychological processes operate on individual and corporate performance.

Jossey-Bass, Mar 2009

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Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management

Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management

The objective of this book is to develop a theory of organizational functioning as viewed from a clinical perspective. For that purpose psychoanalytic concepts are applied to the study of leadership behavior, organizational stress, work disorders, career, power, and authority.

Routledge, Feb 2009

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