The leader on the couch : a clinical approach to changing people and organizations /
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries.
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, �2006.
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 407 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction : the clinical paradigm -- 2. The narcissistic leader : myth and reality -- 3. A parade of personalities -- 4. Leaders and followers : moving away from people -- 5. Leaders and followers : moving against people -- 6. Elation and its vicissitudes -- 7. The impostor syndrome : the shadow side of success -- 8. Can leaders change? : yes, but only if they want to -- 9. Taking the road less traveled -- 10. Coach or couch, anybody? -- 11. Group leadership coaching -- 12. The unconscious life of groups and organizations -- 13. Unraveling the mystery of organizations -- 14. Conclusion : creating "authentizotic" organizations.
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Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life has typically been hostile to the inner world of feeling. Rationality is deemed superior to feeling, which can contaminate judgment. But without feeling there is no passion, and no action.
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