Overview
- Analyses how people in positions of leadership project their personal neuroses
- Examines dysfunction in everyday life in organizations, from personal behavior to executive pay
- Includes a brief anecdote to clearly illustrate the ideas in each chapter
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
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.
Understanding what is happening around us has become more difficult than ever in the Age of Trump. Don’t imperatives like “build that wall” sound very much like “Off with his head”? Unfortunately, and unlike Alice, we are not going to wake up from a bad dream and discover that everything is “nothing but a pack of cards”.
The first part of this book looks at the psychodynamics of leadership in both a business and a political context. The second focuses on the psychopathology of everyday life in organizations and the seemingly endless ways people can make a mess of things – including mega pay packages, acting out, digital addiction and other dysfunctional behaviour patterns. Each chapter ends with a brief anecdote to illustrate the dilemma it presents.
In short, sharp nuggets, Kets de Vries helps make sense of how the madness of the present has affected leadership in organizations and the workplace.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries is the Distinguished Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change at INSEAD, the Founder of INSEAD’s Global Leadership Centre, Program Director of INSEAD’s top management program, “The Challenge of Leadership: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence”, and Scientific Director of the Executive Master’s program “Consulting and Coaching for Change”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Down the Rabbit Hole of Leadership
Book Subtitle: Leadership Pathology in Everyday Life
Authors: Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92462-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92461-8Published: 20 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06435-8Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92462-5Published: 10 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 186
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Coaching, Consulting, Supervision and Coaching