Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom: How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
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Description for Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom: How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After
Hardback. Telling Fairy Tales in the Board Room contains five stories that dramatize five key themes of dysfunctional leadership and how coaches can intervene. Series: Insead Business Press. Num Pages: 140 pages, 1 figures. BIC Classification: JMJ; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 14. Weight in Grams: 294.
We know where we are with a fairy story. There is a cast of predictable characters, the hero or heroine is submitted to terrible trials, cruelty, and injustice but in the end the baddies get their comeuppance, good triumphs, and everyone lives happily ever after. In this book Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of leadership, and a pioneering practitioner in the field of psychodynamic executive coaching, draws on the format of traditional fairy tales and tells us five stories that dramatize five key themes of dysfunctional leadership. The ... Read more
We know where we are with a fairy story. There is a cast of predictable characters, the hero or heroine is submitted to terrible trials, cruelty, and injustice but in the end the baddies get their comeuppance, good triumphs, and everyone lives happily ever after. In this book Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of leadership, and a pioneering practitioner in the field of psychodynamic executive coaching, draws on the format of traditional fairy tales and tells us five stories that dramatize five key themes of dysfunctional leadership. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Insead Business Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
125
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137562722
SKU
V9781137562722
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99-15
About Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries is the Distinguished Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change at INSEAD, the Founder of INSEAD's Global Leadership Centre, and program director of INSEAD's top management program, 'The Challenge of Leadership: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence,' and Scientific Director of the Executive Master's Program 'Consulting and Coaching for Change'. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, ... Read more
Reviews for Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom: How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After
'This book is the distillation of the life experiences of an internationally renowned guru of management and leadership studies. Combining insight with his signature wit, Kets de Vries cuts to the bone as he reflects on and gently guides executives, and others, through some of the core issues that bedevil our lives. A book that will linger in memory, creating ... Read more