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Intro -- Preface -- Praise for Quo Vadis? -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- 1: The Oldest Question -- The Meaning of Life -- Defining Meaning and Purpose -- Instincts and the Inner World -- 2: In the Shadow of Death -- Tolstoy's Angst -- 3: A Zen Kōan -- Near Death Experiences -- The Book of Revelation -- 4: Death as Meaning-Maker -- La Petite Mort -- Death and the Life Cycle -- An Uncertain Expiration Date -- 5: Death Anxiety -- The Mother of All Concerns -- The Salient Role of Denial -- Immortality Systems -- 6: In Search of Answers -- The Evolutionary Point of View -- Herd and Attachment-Like Behavior -- 7: Psychologists to the Rescue -- 8: Happiness and Meaning -- Givers and Takers -- Meaning without Happiness -- The Dark Side of Meaning -- 9: Meaning, Health, and Well-Being -- Quality of Relationships -- Altruism and its Evolutionary Origins -- Gratitude -- A Sense of Competence -- 10: The Art of Meaning-Making -- Authenticity -- The Examined Life -- Discovering Meaning -- Enjoying the Journey -- 11: Getting to the "How To" -- Scoring -- Telling Our Story -- Transcendence -- Looking for "Flow" -- Pay Attention to the "Stealth Motivator" -- "Dare to err and dare to dream" -- The Ouroboros: The Inner Journey -- Finding a Guide -- Looking into the Mirror, Darkly -- Index.

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

"... In this book Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of leadership, and a pioneering practitioner in the field of psychodynamic executive coaching, draws on the format of traditional fairy tales and tells us five stories that dramatize five key themes of dysfunctional leadership. The accompanying commentaries analyze each tale and examine the ways in which it applies to leadership behavior and organizational practices. This diagnostic element is supported by self-assessment tests that reinforce the main lessons of each tale and guide the reader's interpretation of the results..." -- From page [4] of the cover

Presents the essential leadership models and equips practitioners with tools for developing executive coaches and working with business leaders.

Kets de Vries profiles a range of toxic executives the narcissist, psychopath, cold fish, obsessive-compulsive, and many more, offering coaches examples of interventions that have worked and those that haven't, to help coaches deal with difficult people and become more effective.

" ... In this book Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of leadership, and a pioneering practitioner in the field of psychodynamic executive coaching, draws on the format of traditional fairy tales and tells us five stories that dramatize five key themes of dysfunctional leadership. The accompanying commentaries analyze each tale and examine the ways in which it applies to leadership behavior and organizational practices. This diagnostic element is supported by self-assessment tests that reinforce the main lessons of each tale and guide the reader's interpretation of the results ..."--Page 4 of the cover

An inclusive, networking-oriented culture is key to an organization's success. Effective leaders must understand the demands of a diverse workforce, and appreciate the effect this has on wider organizational dynamics, such as strategy, productivity, market penetration, customer service, recruitment costs, and turnover. World-renowned coaching expert and bestselling author Manfred Kets de Vries draws on his extensive experience in group leadership coaching to provide an in-depth look at the coaching process, considering the diversity of both individual and organizational learning through the lens of psychodynamic mindfulness. Kets de Vries advises on how the best leadership coaches help their executive clients create the tipping points that lead to significant personal and professional change and explains the innovative tools he has devised to support this intervention technique. Including case examples and questionnaires that facilitate a deep understanding of the psychodynamics of personal and organizational change, this book will help coaches and executives transform attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

"In today's global world organizations rely more and more on virtual teams. In his latest book on group coaching for high-performance teams, Manfred Kets de Vries provides a clear understanding of how to coach groups of managers and make them effective teams that can bring greatly improved performance for their companies. Executives, consultants, and coaches will learn what factors drive their success or failure and how to improve their ability to adapt to changing situations"--

Reflections on Groups and Organizations is the third and final book in the On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries series. Broadening the Kets De Vries canvas, this book examines concepts of organizational health, performance, and change. Material ranges from studies of high performance teams - based on time the author spent with the pygmies of central Africa - to the study of organizational stars, to the use of coaching interventions to improve personal and organizational functioning. Kets de Vries looks at the interpersonal and group processes that determine how organizations work within spe

This book deals with how coaching interventions can drive a journey of transformational change at individual, team, and organizational levels. As a result, coaching interventions serve to create more reflective people, who in turn, create better organizations. The group coaching methodology, used by the INSEAD Global Leadership Center (IGLC) and adopted by the Center for Leadership Development Research (CLDR) at the European School of Technology and Management (ESMT), Berlin, is the basis for developing the theoretical assumptions behind the chapters. Through sharing research methodologies, and describing intervention and change techniques used in the leadership development and education of executive coaches, the book sheds light on how the 'magic' of coaching works, what coaches actually do, and how their clients respond. This book is a joint project between the IGLC and the CLDR. In compiling it, we have involved academics who conduct research, teach, and consult; leadership development coaches; change consultants; and executives who adopted IGLC methods for reflection on leadership development opportunities and challenges. We have also included people who have experienced IGLC methods in the process of their developmental journeys. They have collaborated, consulted their research and practice notes, analyzed data from inquiry projects, and shared their personal experiences in individual essays.