Leading Wisely - Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times

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.

List of contents

Preface
 
Chapter 1: Not knowing
 
Chapter 2: Beyond book knowledge
 
Chapter 3: Wisdom and sorrow
 
Chapter 4: The Golden Rule
 
Chapter 5: Forgiveness
 
Chapter 6: Envy
 
Chapter 7: Greed
 
Chapter 8: Listening
 
Chapter 9: Choose your battles wisely
 
Chapter 10: Courage
 
Chapter 11: Happiness
 
Chapter 12: Conclusion
 
About the Author
 
Index

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Manfred F R Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries, Manfred F. R. (Fontainebleau Kets De Vries, Mfr Kets De Vries, Kets de Vries Manfred F. R.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781119860396
• ISBN: 978-1-119-86039-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Business administration, companies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Management, Führung, Führungskraft, Business & management, Wirtschaft u. Management, Allg. Wirtschaft u. Management