Leading Wisely Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
MANFRED KETS DE VRIES brings a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the psychological dimensions of individual and organizational change. His specific areas of interest are leadership (the “bright” and “dark” side), entrepreneurship, career dynamics, talentmanagement, family business, cross-cultural management, succession planning, organizational and individual stress, C-suite team building, executive coaching, organizational development, transformation management, and management consulting.
The Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change at INSEAD, he is Program Director of INSEAD’s top management program, “The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders,” and the Founder of INSEAD’s Executive Master Program in Change Management. He was also the Founder-Director of INSEAD’s Global Leadership Center. As an educator, he received INSEAD’s distinguished teacher award six times. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, El País, and The Economist have rated Manfred Kets de Vries among the world’s leading management thinkers and among the most influential contributors to human resource management.
Kets de Vries works as a consultant on organizational design/transformation and strategic human resource management for companies worldwide. As an educator and consultant, he has worked in more than forty countries. In his role as a consultant, he is also the founder-chairman of the Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI), a boutique strategic leadership development consulting firm.
In Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times, renowned leadership expert, psychoanalyst and executive coach Manfred Kets De Vries delivers an insightful and unique exploration of what it means to lead with wisdom. The book demonstrates that exclusive reliance on knowledge, data, and information yields a superficial leadership style lacking in depth and discernment. What's more important in the wisdom equation is possessing humility, judgment, empathy, compassion, and night vision.
With eleven chapters full of anecdotes and tales from a variety of spiritual and cultural traditions that enrich and lend a deeper significance to the choices we make as leaders and members of organizations, Leading Wisely provides readers with:
- A thorough exploration of dealing with negative—but entirely natural motivations, like envy and greed
- An emphasis on the Golden Rule—treating others as we like to be treated ourselves
- An opportunity to be courageous—to consciously and intentionally pick our battles, saving energy for what really matters
- Lessons on how to listen intently and actively, truly hearing what our colleagues, friends, family, and followers are saying before reacting
- Finding happiness within ourselves
Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times is a startlingly incisive book, filled with messages that make the book required reading for anyone in a position of leadership or power. It also belongs in the libraries of well-being and health practitioners who frequently deal with businesspeople as clients or patients.
Preface vii
1 Not knowing 1
2 Beyond book knowledge 19
3 Wisdom and sorrow 37
4 The Golden Rule 51
5 Forgiveness 61
6 Envy 73
7 Greed 85
8 Listening 95
9 Choose your battles wisely 109
10 Courage 121
11 Happiness 135
12 Conclusion 151
About the Author 159
Index 163
Transform your leadership strategy with this insightful guide from a world-renowned management thinker, psychoanalyst and executive coach
Data, knowledge, and information are vital components of effective leadership, but they’re not the only things that managers, executives, coaches, and other leaders need to motivate and inspire their team. Humility, judgment, empathy, and compassion are equally—if not more—important.
In Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times, veteran leadership expert, psychoanalyst, and executive coach Manfred Kets de Vries delivers an eye-opening new approach to leadership—one that focuses on wisdom, reflection, and courage. You’ll learn to emphasize the Golden Rule–treating others the way you wish to be treated–and listen intently and actively. At the same time, you’ll discover how to find happiness and fulfillment in your work as you lead others with compassion and empathy.
Throughout, the author has woven in anecdotes and stories from a variety of spiritual and cultural traditions that enrich and expand on the “wisdom equation” he describes in the book. Leading Wisely is an invitation to explore the importance of wisdom as a foundational principle in our lives and leadership strategies, and is essential reading for anyone in a position of leadership or authority.
Data and information revolutions have led many business leaders to focus almost exclusively on the numbers, statistics, and spreadsheets collected and completed by their organizations. Unfortunately, this has been accompanied by a lack of attention to the human side of management, decreasing the ability of some leaders to motivate and inspire their teams.
In Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times, accomplished leadership expert, psychoanalyst, and executive coach Manfred Kets de Vries turns the tables on data-obsessed number crunchers and refocuses the attention of leaders to the areas that really matter: people and personalities.
You’ll learn how to lead with wisdom as the book walks you through the characteristics and traits that make for a superlative leader, including humility, judgment, empathy, compassion, and night vision.
The author includes anecdotes and tales from a variety of spiritual and cultural traditions that enrich and lend deep significance to the everyday choices we make as leaders and members of companies. He also explores how to deal with negative—but entirely natural—motivations, like envy and greed, and how to emphasize and apply the Golden Rule at work.
You’ll find opportunities to be truly courageous by consciously picking your battles and saving your energy for what truly matters while you develop your ability to listen actively and intently to your colleagues, friends, family, and followers. Finally, you’ll learn strategies for finding and developing happiness and fulfillment from your work and leadership.
Startingly insightful and entirely indispensable, Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times delivers a human-centered and compelling discussion on what it means to understand and effectively lead other people through challenging situations.
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
MANFRED KETS DE VRIES brings a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the psychological dimensions of individual and organizational change. His specific areas of interest are leadership (the “bright” and “dark” side), entrepreneurship, career dynamics, talentmanagement, family business, cross-cultural management, succession planning, organizational and individual stress, C-suite team building, executive coaching, organizational development, transformation management, and management consulting.
The Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change at INSEAD, he is Program Director of INSEAD’s top management program, “The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders,” and the Founder of INSEAD’s Executive Master Program in Change Management. He was also the Founder-Director of INSEAD’s Global Leadership Center. As an educator, he received INSEAD’s distinguished teacher award six times. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, El País, and The Economist have rated Manfred Kets de Vries among the world’s leading management thinkers and among the most influential contributors to human resource management.
Kets de Vries works as a consultant on organizational design/transformation and strategic human resource management for companies worldwide. As an educator and consultant, he has worked in more than forty countries. In his role as a consultant, he is also the founder-chairman of the Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI), a boutique strategic leadership development consulting firm.