Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane

Essays on Irrational Organizations and Their Leaders

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Produktbeschreibung

World-renowned management guru and expert in corporate neurosis Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries puts organizations on the couch. By combining the dismal science of management and the impossible profession of psychoanalysis, Kets de Vries presents eclectic advice on how things really work in organizations.

These brief and insightful essays not only decipher problems that are common in organizational life, but they also shed light on some of the underlying dimensions that often go unnoticed.

Kets de Vries covers everything from leadership and entrepreneurship to downsizing and managing acquisitions, using contemporary examples like Robert Maxwell, Jack Welch, Tom Peters, Robert Coles, and John Gardner.

Produktdetails

• J-B US non-Franchise Leadership
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780787901127
• ISBN-10: 0787901121
• Artikelnr.: 09404923

Autorenporträt

MANFRED F. R. KETS DE VRIES holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Human Resource Management at the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in Fountainebleau, France. He has previously held a professorship at Harvard Business School and is the author of several books including Leaders, Fools, and Imposters (Jossey-Bass, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Leaders and the Organization 1. If I'm the Leader, Will Anyone
Follow? A Definition of Leadership 2. Welcome to the Snake Pit: The New CEO
3. Boiled Frogs and Dancing Elephants: Change and Downsizing 4. Merger
Fever: Managing Acquisition 5. Do You Like Singing the Company Song?
Corporate Culture 6. A Cultural Tower of Babel: Managing Across Borders 7.
Are You Sure You Want to Work Abroad? International Assignments 8. Do You
Have the Right Stuff? The Making of a Global Leader 9. When the Future Is
Now: Leadership for the Next Millennium Part Two: Leaders and Individuals
10. Is Anatomy Really Destiny? Women as Leaders 11. Joining the Family
Burlesque: Family Firms 12. Reaping the Whirlwind: Creativity at Work 13.
CEOs Also Have the Blues: Succession and Retirement 14. Do Workaholics Have
More Fun? Balancing Work and Pleasure 15. Dead Fish, Incorporated:
Alexithymia in Organizations 16. Doing a Maxwell: The Dark Side of
Entrepreneurship 17. Why Work for a Genghis Khan? Identifying with the
Aggressor 18. Leaders Who Go Off the Deep End: Narcissism and Hubris 19.
Conclusion: In Praise of a Little Madness