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192 Seiten
Englisch
John Wiley & Sonserschienen am24.01.20221. Auflage
Discover true leadership with this actionable guide from a world renowned leadership expert, psychoanalyst, and executive coach
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.


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.mehr
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KlappentextDiscover true leadership with this actionable guide from a world renowned leadership expert, psychoanalyst, and executive coach
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.


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.
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Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum24.01.2022
Auflage1. Auflage
Seiten192 Seiten
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 163mehr
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Preface


By three methods we can learn wisdom. First, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

-Confucius.



All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being foolish

Aristotle is often attributed with the statement, There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. One cannot help but wonder if he was thinking of something comparable to the idea of the so-called Darwin Awards competition. If you do not know what I am referring to, let me explain. The Darwin Award is a rather tongue-in-cheek honor given to people who have singled themselves out by stupidly risking life and limb in the dumbest way possible. To be selected for this award, the following criteria must apply:

In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives by eliminating themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species chances of long-term survival.

In other words, the candidate's foolishness must be unique and sensational. In fact, if the Darwin Awards does prove anything at all, it is that even presumably intelligent people can remove themselves from the gene pool in apparently ridiculous ways.

I remember how I could well have received an honorable citation for the Darwin Awards while canoeing with my wife and two children on the Concord River in Massachusetts. Due to the fast-melting snow, the river had completely flooded its banks. Large parts of what used to be land were now inundated. While happily paddling between the many trees that were now standing in the water, we came across a large, low hanging branch that was blocking our passage. Showing no judgement at all, I told everyone in the canoe to lean to one side to be able to pass under that branch, with the obvious result that the canoe keeled over and everyone suddenly spilled into the water. It was an amazingly stupid suggestion on my part.

Soaking wet, I fished the children out of the water and, for reasons of safety, put them on this infamous branch. Together with my wife - as we were able to stand in the overflowed river - we tilted the canoe to pour out the water. Subsequently, the two of us, completely soaked, paddled back to the shore like mad. When we got into our car, we put on maximum heat and drove home to Cambridge as fast as possible. We were lucky that we did not drown or catch pneumonia, but in future canoeing expeditions, I kept William Blake's admonition in mind: A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. I had learned something the hard way. I had learned from experience. Never was such an accident going to happen to me again. In the future, I would have better judgement. In future actions, I would try to be wiser.
Beyond book learning

Even though I wrote this book only recently, in more than one way, these musings on wisdom in the context of leadership have been in the works for a very long time. In fact, it is fair to say that this book reflects the ruminations of my own struggles with foolishness, all the while trying to acquire a touch of wisdom. Although book learning has always been important to me, knowledge alone never seemed to be enough in dealing with many of the questions that I faced in my daily work as a professor, psychoanalyst, consultant and executive coach. Although I always thought that to acquire knowledge, studying does not hurt, to acquire wisdom, clearly something more was needed. Making efforts to appear knowledgeable did not seem to be good enough. Among other things, I realized that I needed to learn how to observe. If I wanted to act wisely, I needed to really make sense of what was going on around me. Fortunately, in that respect, my long psychoanalytic training turned out to be very useful.

Apart from needing to become more proficient in seeing things, much of what I have learned in life has also come to pass through the questioning of my students. These demanding interchanges - because, far too often, it had to do with questions to which there were no easy answers - were a good lesson in humility. Again and again, these discussions reminded me of my ignorance - it showed how little I really did know. In hindsight, I realized that I became even more aware of my limitations in sense making when I designed a program for C-suite executives at INSEAD, where I have been teaching for a very long time. Working with cohorts of C-suite executives from all over the globe proved to be even more of a challenge, compared to working with the much younger MBA students. Very often, the latter tended to be more gullible, while in many instances, the older executives would present me with extremely complex problems for which I had no easy answers.

For pedagogical reasons, most business schools use case studies. My approach has not been very different from that of the Harvard Business School - the epicenter of case studies - which is one of my alma maters. During a lifetime influenced by their pedagogical approach, I must have written over a hundred of these case studies. Frankly speaking, case studies have always been an excellent way to create the illusion of decision-making omnipotence - to provide students with the fantasy that they could tackle any difficult problem. Certainly, I was no exception, having once had similar illusions. After all, I had also at one time done an MBA. However, in this particular seminar, specifically designed for leaders of organizations, my approach became somewhat different. In this instance, I decided to take advantage of the fact that the interesting case studies were sitting right in my class. I came to realize that using my participants as prospective study subjects allowed me and others in the class to engage in a more in-depth way of sense making, compared to the traditional case study approach.

I should add that most case studies about senior executives are of a somewhat hagiographic nature, something I am very aware of, given my own case writing history. Why this is so, is that the protagonists in these case studies generally have the final cut , enabling them to take out of the case any information they do not fancy. Unfortunately, by doing so, the nerve is often taken out of the material . In addition, to add to this cleansing process , I should mention the case writer's tendency towards self-censorship, his or her not wanting to include material that may seem to be too controversial, exactly because of the existence of this right of final cut. Furthermore, if truth be told, based on my own experience, it is rather rare for executives to truly open up in these case studies - to talk frankly about what is really troubling them. Getting them to go deep enough to tell a more complete story about the challenges they are facing in their lives is always an uphill struggle. After all, it is so much safer to keep the conversation at a rather superficial level.

In the seminars I designed, however, hagiography was not something that had a long life span. As the objective of the program is to help participants develop deeper insights about themselves - to find ways to navigate through life's challenging situations - staying merely on the surface is not really an option. It would be difficult to keep the discussions going by remaining at a superficial level. As a matter of fact, it would be a real waste of time. Yet, most participants tended to open up, as their defenses wore down. Gradually, they would pay more heed to the statement no interpretation without association . They would come to realize that if they kept the discussion merely at a superficial level, they would not get much out of such a seminar. To go beyond superficialities was in their best interest. Of course, what facilitated the process of having the participants really open up was that their colleague-participants were becoming increasingly effective in identifying what was happening beneath the surface. As time went by, what would come to the surface were the real issues that the person in the hot seat was trying to deal with.

During these sessions, many insightful questions, reflections and insights would come to the fore. Although there is nothing bad about learning from one's own experience, learning from the experience of others can be of equal merit. Looking back, having facilitated these kinds of seminars for a very long time, I can only say that it has been a great learning adventure. Much wisdom was always present during these sessions.

More than a decade ago, encouraged by what I learned from my students during these seminars, I wrote a book with the title, Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death: Musings from the Underground, where I reflected on the insights provided to me by my participants. Quite recently, as the COVID-19 pandemic has offered me much more time for reflection, this particular book has been followed by five others: Journeys into Coronavirus Land: Lessons from a Pandemic; The CEO Whisperer: Meditations on Leadership, Life and Change; Quo Vadis?: The Existential Challenges of Leaders; Leadership Unhinged: Essays on the Ugly, the Bad and the Weird and Dancing on Quicksand:...
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