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The Hedgehog Effect: The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

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Description for The Hedgehog Effect: The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 316 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KJMB; KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 620.
In The Hedgehog Effect, Manfred Kets de Vries presents the case for leadership group coaching as an experiential training ground for learning to function as a high performance team. His group coaching model, incorporating living case studies, has been developed over more than 20 years of delivering programs to top-level executives and sets the standard in the field of leadership group coaching.

Written for coaches, consultants, leadership development directors, and anyone working in or with teams, The Hedgehog Effect begins with an in-depth analysis of what teams and groups are all about. The intricacies of leadership coaching are illustrated ... Read more

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Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc United States

Number of pages

320

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2011

Condition

New

Weight

599g

Number of Pages

320

Place of Publication

New York, United States

ISBN

9781119973362

SKU

V9781119973362

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About Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries brings a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organizational change. Bringing to bear his knowledge and experience of economics (Econ. Drs., University of Amsterdam), management (ITP, MBA, and DBA, Harvard Business School), and psychoanalysis (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association), Kets de Vries scrutinizes ... Read morethe interface between international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic psychiatry. His specific areas of interest are leadership, career dynamics, team building, coaching, executive stress, entrepreneurship, family business, succession planning, cross-cultural management, and the dynamics of corporate transformation and change. A clinical professor of leadership development, he holds the Raoul de Vitry d’Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD, France, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi. He is the founder of INSEAD’s Global Leadership Center. In addition, he is program director of INSEAD’s top management program, The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders (and has five times received INSEAD’s distinguished teacher award). He is also the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership Development Research at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin. He has held professorships at McGill University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, and the Harvard Business School, and he has lectured at management institutions around the world. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist have rated Manfred Kets de Vries one of world’s leading leadership theoreticians. Kets de Vries is listed among the world’s top 50 leading management thinkers, and is among the most influential contributors to human resource management. He has been the recipient of the Harry and Miriam Levinson Award from the American Psychological Association, and the Freud Memorial Award from the Dutch Psychoanalytic Institute. He has also been given the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Leadership Association, in recognition of his role as one of the world’s founding professionals in the development of leadership as a field and discipline. Presently, Kets de Vries is seen as the leading figure in the clinical study of organizational leadership. Kets de Vries is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 35 books, including Unstable at the Top; The Neurotic Organization; Organizational Paradoxes; Leaders, Fools, and Impostors; Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane; The Leadership Mystique; The Happiness Equation; Lessons on Leadership by Terror; The New Global Leaders; The Leader on the Couch; Coach and Couch; Family Business: Human Dilemmas in the Family Firm; Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death; Reflections on Character and Leadership; Reflections on Leadership and Career Development; Reflections on Groups and Organizations; and The Coaching Kaleidoscope. Further titles are in preparation. His books and articles have been translated into 31 languages. Show Less

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"... impressive and wide-ranging book." (People Management, April 2012) "A useful guide to unconscious factors in group leadership coaching." (People Management, February 2012) "A really compelling introduction to anyone wishing to know more about group psychodynamics. It is also a thought-provoking and practical oeuvre." (HR Zone, January 2012)

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