The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations

"Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life has typically been hostile to the inner world of feeling. Rationality is deemed superior to feeling, which can contaminate judgment. But without feeling there is no passion, and no action. This book sets out to change people and organizations for the better, by revealing the ‘dark side’ of leadership behaviour and its impact on performance. Tapping into the startling parallels between the journey to emotional intelligence, the process of psychoanalysis, the practice of leadership coaching and the Zen journey to enlightenment, renowned thinker Manfred Kets de Vries helps executives, consultants, and coaches to peel back the layers of self-deception and reveal how inner personality – largely hard-wired since early childhood – affects the way they lead and manage others. "

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Title of ebook: The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations
ISBN: 9780470032961
parent-ISBN: 9780470030790
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Internet download file size: 2772 kb
Published: 11-2006
Released online for download: 11-02-2006
Author of eBook: Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R.

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The Leader on the Couch

A Clinical Approach to Changing People & Organizations

Chapter One

INTRODUCTION: THE CLINICAL PARADIGM

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

-Emmanuel Levinas

I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.

-Charles Sanford, Jr.

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

-Andrew Carnegie

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

-Zen proverb

There's a Zen tale about a person who noticed a disturbing bump under a rug. This person tried to smooth out the rug, but every time she did so, the bump reappeared. In utter frustration, she finally lifted up the rug, and to her great surprise, out slid an angry snake.

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The Leader on the Couch

Chapter One

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