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100 _aF.R. de, Kets Vries Manfred
245 0 _aReflections on character and leadership
260 _aSan Francisco, CA
300 _a1 online resource (xxii, 343 pages)
505 _aPART 1. LEADERS, FOOLS, AND IMPOSTORS: Introduction ; 1. The entrepreneurial personality ; 2. The hypomanic personality ; 3. The alexithymic personality ; 4. The impostor syndrome ; 5. Neurotic impostors: feeling like a fake ; 6. The organizational fool: balancing a leader's hubris -- PART 2. THE PATHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP: Introduction ; 7. Prisoners of leadership ; 8. The spirit of despotism: understanding the tyrant within ; 9. Leadership by terror: finding Shaka Zulu in the attic -- PART 3. TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP: Introduction ; 10. 'Doing an Alexander': lessons on leadership by a master conqueror ; 11. Leaders who make a difference ; 12. Reaping the whirlwind: managing creative people -- PART 4. LEADERSHIP IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT: Introduction ; 13. The development of the leader withing the global corporation ; 14. In search of the new European business leader ; 15. Lessons from the 'Wild East': Russian character and leadership -- CONCLUSION: Creating high-commitment organization.
520 _aReflections on Character and Leadership is the first of the three books in the Manfred kets de Vries on the Couch series. Here, Kets de Vries looks at entrepreneurship, the pathology of leadership, and the personality of the leader. The reader will visit the disturbed inner worlds of leaders like Alexander the Great, Shaka Zulu and Robert Maxwell, discover how to distinguish between a cold fish and a live volcano, and identify impostors, despots, organizational fools and global leaders. The book highlights the basic principles of the clinical paradigm--the process of putting organizations and t.
520 _aonline resource
520 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-332) and index.
690 _aLeadership
690 _abusiness & Economics
856 _uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/nhs?url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119206460
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