We asked our community of coaches and leadership development practitioners to reflect on the key themes they observed in their work with hundreds of leaders and organisations during 2022 and to look ahead to what they anticipate leaders and organisations will be thinking about in 2023.
KDVI , Dec 2022
Blogs
Attempting to address the important aspects of 'Leadership' is very commendable, but are they really ‘lived’ or just ‘stated’? It leaves Jean Claude Noel with the image of an overloaded ship, becoming rudderless and sinking, like the Titanic.
KDVI, Jun 2022
Blogs
We recently held a series of client conversations with leaders from around the world to take stock of current experiences and to share perspectives on the future of leadership and workplaces.
KDVI, Jul 2021
Blogs
In this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Manfred Kets-de-Vries about the dangers of toxic personalities within the leadership team.
Scaleup Valley Podcast, Mar 2021
Videos
Recent developments have given rise to examples where women are provided with more choice of what type of leader they can be. In this blog, Paul Vanderbroeck, suggests three alternative role models, giving hope for gender balance in leadership in the near future.
KDVI Writer's Colony, Jan 2021
Blogs
The increasing complexity and interdependency of business environments make the task of leadership in a global interconnected world ever more challenging.
Blogs
Crisis forces people and companies to adapt and change. Covid-19 is particular because of its global impact; consequences are magnified both personally and collectively. Large scale disruptions can expose our fault lines and vulnerabilities and push us to challenge and question existing mindsets and behaviours. While traumatic, it can also elevate and bring to the fore different leadership behaviours.
Blogs
The 4th Industrial Revolution, or age of rapid technological advances, is changing the way people work with disruptive impact on business, global economy and broader society (WEF, 2020). Future of work trends generally describe a workforce that is increasingly diverse, dispersed, digital, and dynamic. The Covid-19 pandemic has only accelerated these shifts, pushing companies to fast track the adoption of technologies and remote working. But what are the human consequences of these new ways of working, and how do they align with aspirations for the future of work?
Blogs
Resilience, wellbeing and healthy performance cultures -
The challenge of leadership today is riding the pandemic rollercoaster while laying tracks for the future and inspiring others. Resilience is key.
KDVI, Dec 2020
Blogs
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
Books
How to help people to adapt, not force them to adopt -
For many, the first wave of the pandemic was an adrenaline-fuelled sprint. The long haul demands a different lace and a shift in leadership priorities.
KDVI, Oct 2020
Blogs
Virtual team coaching can help turn around dysfunctional teams
Effective organisations rely on teamwork, not least because it facilitates problem solving. Many leaders, however, are ambivalent about teams. They fear overt and covert conflict, uneven participation, tunnel vision, lack of accountability and indifference to the interests of the organisation as a whole. Also, more than a few have no idea how to put together well functioning teams. Their fear of delegating – losing control – reinforces the stereotype of the heroic leader who handles it all.
INSEAD Knowledge, Aug 2020
Blogs
Five key lessons for entrepreneurs and leadership
As an organisation, the Virgin Group has been of great interest to the public and business experts worldwide, especially given Richard Branson’s creative leadership style in running and growing the enterprise. We dive into Professor Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Robert Dick’s case titled, “Branson’s Virgin: The Coming of Age of a Counter-Cultural Enterprise,” and explore five key lessons for entrepreneurs and leadership.
INSEAD Knowledge, Jul 2020
Blogs
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
Books
Around the world, plans are being launched to fight COVID-19. Impressive change management and leadership will be necessary to convince people to adjust their behaviour, to eventually conquer the virus and revive the economy.
Leadership in the Next Phase of COVID-19, Apr 2020
Blogs
Whether you might be feeling pressure of navigating a virtual work environment, managing your team or even working on your own leadership issues, we thought it would help to share what we’re learning so it might help you to reflect on what you’re learning too. When we learn something from one client or colleague, we can share that reflection to help another. In that way we “pay the learning forward” and find new ways to collaborate and inspire each other.
KDVI Writer's Colony, Apr 2020
Blogs
Like you, we’ve been talking, reading and experiencing a large volume of information about leadership in crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic is leveling, because it has an impact on everyone in the world. What we can learn from each other during this time truly inspired this blog series and I’m grateful to be able to share these words with the hope they inspire you too.
KDVI Writer's Colony, Apr 2020
Blogs
What is next? How do I realise my future ambitions? Annette explores practical steps women can take to grow further in leadership.
Blogs
When is it appropriate to share decision-making power as a leader?
Leaders shape their organisation through the decisions they take; it is one of the main expressions of their power. In fact, it can be seen as their main role. In this blog, Christopher explores how leaders can overcome the binary top-down/bottom-up perspective to leadership and decision-making.
KDVI Research Lab, Dec 2018
Blogs
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
Books
Coaching female leaders with narcissistic tendencies
Following on from his first blog, 'Can a Woman Leader be a Narcissist', Paul's second blog explores specific approaches towards coaching female leaders with narcissistic tendencies. The blog provides insights for Executive and Leadership Development Professionals to customise leadership development to the individual strengths and weaknesses of women in the talent pool.
KDVI Research Lab, Aug 2018
Blogs
“Think narcissist, think female!”
"Think narcissist, think male"? A further addition to our narcissism blog series, this blog shows that women leaders, too, can be narcissistic. Yet it's a different kind of narcissism with different implications for leadership development. Three types of narcissistic women leaders - the Super Woman, the Perfectionist and the Lenient Leader - are examined.
KDVI Research Lab, Jul 2018
Blogs
Relationship between leader narcissism and leader emergence
The second blog in our KDVI Research Lab series, exploring the phenomenon of leadership and narcissism, looks at the advantages and disadvantages of narcissistic behaviour.
KDVI Research Lab, May 2018
Blogs
Most frequent leadership style at top management levels? Narcissism
Is healthy narcissism actually an essential part of leadership? When does it become destructive? And how can organisations get the best out of narcissistic leaders, while addressing the destructive elements of their leadership style? The KDVI Research LAB will be sharing a series of blogs over the next couple of weeks to explore the phenomenon of leadership and narcissism. Today, we are sharing the first blog in the series, which explores why narcissistic leaders are indeed a HR taboo.
KDVI Research Lab, May 2018
Blogs
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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