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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:
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.
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
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