Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries

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The dynamics of family controlled firms: The good and the bad news. (1993) (942)
Top Executive Locus of Control and Its Relationship to Strategy-Making, Structure, and Environment (1982) (796)
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY: A PERSON AT THE CROSSROADS (1977) (676)
The neurotic organization (1984) (400)
The leadership mystique (1994) (308)
Personality, Culture, and Organization (1986) (276)
Organizations on the Couch:: A Clinical Perspective on Organizational Dynamics (2004) (224)
Leadership group coaching in action: The Zen of creating high performance teams (2005) (185)
The Anatomy of the Entrepreneur: Clinical Observations (1996) (182)
INTERPRETING ORGANIZATIONAL TEXTS (1987) (146)
Organizational paradoxes: Clinical approaches to management (1980) (145)
The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations (2006) (143)
Neurotic style and organizational pathology (1984) (129)
Creating Authentizotic Organizations: Well-Functioning Individuals in Vibrant Companies (2001) (127)
Global Leadership from A to Z: Creating High Commitment Organizations (2002) (119)
High-performance teams: Lessons from the pygmies (1999) (118)
Creating Transformational Executive Education Programs (2007) (115)
Beyond the quick fix:: The psychodynamics of organizational transformation and change (1998) (102)
Family Business on the Couch: A Psychological Perspective (2007) (98)
A journey into the “Wild East”: Leadership style and organizational practices in Russia (2000) (94)
The Organizational Fool: Balancing a Leader's Hubris (1990) (94)
Organizations on the Couch: Clinical Perspectives on Organizational Behavior and Change (1991) (91)
The dark side of CEO succession (1988) (85)
The New Global Russian Business Leaders:: Lessons from a Decade of Transition (2004) (82)
The Anarchist within: Clinical Reflections on Russian Character and Leadership Style: (2001) (81)
Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (2007) (68)
The human side of downsizing (1996) (66)
Leaders who make a difference (1996) (62)
The Entrepreneurial Personality (2012) (61)
Leaders who self-destruct: The causes and cures (1989) (57)
The Retirement Syndrome:: The Psychology of Letting Go (2003) (55)
The spirit of despotism: Understanding the tyrant within (2006) (52)
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE PHILOSOPHER-KING? THE LEADER'S ADDICTION TO POWER (1991) (46)
The dangers of feeling like a fake. (2005) (45)
Russia:: A Work in Progress Transcending the Fifth “Time of Troubles” (2008) (44)
Leaders, Fools, and Imposters (2012) (43)
What's Playing in the Organizational Theater? Collusive Relationships in Management (1999) (41)
Coaching the toxic leader (2014) (40)
Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change, and Stress (2009) (37)
The Dynamics of Family Controlled Firms (2012) (36)
The New Russian Business Leaders (2004) (32)
Charisma in action: The transformational abilities of Virgin's Richard Branson and ABB's Percy Barnevik (1998) (29)
Decoding the Team Conundrum:: The Eight Roles Executives Play (2007) (28)
The Leader as Mirror: Clinical Reflections (1989) (28)
Money, Money, Money (2007) (28)
Alexithymia in Organizational Life: The Organization Man Revisited (1989) (27)
The Shadow Side of Leadership (2010) (26)
The happiness equation (2009) (25)
The new global leaders : Richard Branson, Percy Barnevik, and David Simon (1999) (25)
'Doing an Alexander':: Lessons on Leadership by a Master Conqueror (2003) (25)
Lessons on Leadership by Terror (2004) (23)
The Coaching Kaleidoscope : Insights from the Inside (2010) (21)
Putting leaders on the couch. A conversation with Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. Interview by Diane L. Coutu. (2004) (20)
The Impostor Syndrome: Developmental and Societal Issues (1990) (19)
The midcareer conundrum (1978) (19)
Struggling with the demon: Perspectives on individual and organizational rationality. (2003) (19)
Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death (2009) (18)
Leaders on the Couch (1990) (17)
Organizations as Optical Illusions (2005) (17)
The Coaching Kaleidoscope (2010) (16)
The Motivating Role of Envy A Forgotten Factor in Management Theory (1992) (15)
Handbook of character studies : psychoanalytic explorations (1991) (14)
Are You Feeling Mad, Bad, Sad, or Glad? (2010) (14)
Managing Puzzling Personalities: Navigating between `Live Volcanoes' and `Dead Fish.' (1999) (14)
Star Performers: Paradoxes wrapped up in enigmas (2012) (13)
Organizational Sleepwalkers: Emotional Distress at Midlife (1999) (12)
Coach and Couch (2016) (12)
Narcissism and Leadership (2012) (12)
Vision Without Action is a Hallucination: Group Coaching and Strategy Implementation (2015) (12)
The impact of self-esteem, conscientiousness and pseudo-personality on technostress (2020) (11)
Characteristics of effective leadership (2004) (10)
The CEO who couldn't talk straight: And other tales from the boardroom (1992) (10)
Doing Nothing and Nothing to Do: The Hidden Value of Empty Time and Boredom (2014) (10)
Folie A Deux: Acting Out Your Superior's Fantasies (1978) (9)
Russia's Succession Paradox (2008) (8)
The New Global Leaders: Richard Branson, Percy Barnevik, David Simon and the Remaking of International Business (1999) (8)
The Psycho-Path to Disaster: Coping with SOB Executives (2014) (8)
Insead Global Leadership Centre - 360-Degree Feedback Instruments: An Overview (2007) (8)
Mindful Leadership Coaching (2014) (7)
Using the life cycle to anticipate satisfaction at work (1984) (7)
Do You Hate Your Boss (2016) (7)
Psychodynamic Issues in Organizational Leadership (2015) (7)
Doing a Maxwell: Or why not to identify with the aggressor (1993) (6)
The Future of an Illusion:: In Search of the New European Business Leader (2005) (6)
Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster (2017) (6)
Vladimir Putin, CEO of Russia Inc.: The Legacy and the Future (2008) (6)
The Art of Forgiveness: Differentiating Transformational Leaders (2013) (6)
Death and the Executive: Encounters with the 'Stealth' Motivator (2014) (6)
Are You a Victim of the Victim Syndrome (2014) (5)
Coaching Across the Gender Divide—Creating People-Friendly Organizations (2016) (5)
Down the Rabbit Hole of Leadership (2018) (5)
Reflections on Character and Leadership: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries (2009) (5)
The Many Colors of Success:: What do Executives Want Out of Life? (2009) (4)
Coaching's 'Good Hour': Creating Tipping Points (2013) (4)
CEOs also have the blues (1994) (4)
Leadership in Organizations, Sociology of (2001) (4)
Interview With a Russian Entrepreneur:: Ruben Vardanian (2008) (4)
Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom (2016) (4)
The Sexual 'Cloud' in the Executive Suite (2015) (4)
Black, White, and Gray (2017) (4)
Faculty & Research Working Paper Long-term Effectiveness of a Transitional Leadership Development Program: An Exploratory Study (2008) (4)
Getting to the “How To” (2021) (3)
Leadership in a Global Context (2012) (3)
Can you manage the rest of your life (1994) (3)
The Many Colors of Success (2010) (3)
Just Get on With It (2017) (2)
Are Leaders Born or Are They Made?: The Case of Alexander the Great (2018) (2)
Introduction: A Psychodynamic Approach to Leadership Development (2016) (2)
Reflections on Groups and Organizations: Kets de Vries/Reflections (2012) (2)
The Clinical Paradigm: A Primer for Personal Change (2016) (2)
The CEO Life Cycle (2012) (2)
The Clinical Paradigm (2021) (2)
Doing nothing and nothing to do (2015) (2)
Are leaders born or are they made (2004) (2)
Reflections on Character and Leadership: Kets de Vries/Reflections (2012) (2)
An interview with Manfred Kets de Vries (2007) (2)
The Passive-Aggressive Executive (2016) (1)
Administering an empire (2018) (1)
Is There Life after Retirement (1979) (1)
Commentary on the Edgar Schein Interview (2000) (1)
How Leaders Get the Worst Out of People: The Threat of Hate-based Populism (2020) (1)
Fear of Failure or Fear of Success (2017) (1)
Are you a mentor, a helper or a rescuer? (2013) (1)
Down the Rabbit Hole of Shame (2017) (1)
You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger: Executive Coaching Challenges (2015) (1)
How Greedy Are You? (2020) (1)
People-Friendly Organizations: Why We Need an Alternative Default Model (2010) (1)
The business graduation speech: reflections on happiness (2000) (1)
Workplace stress in senior executives: Coaching the ‘uncoachable’ (2018) (1)
Organizational Culture , Leadership , Change , and Stress 1 by (2009) (1)
Reflections on Leadership and Career Development: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries (2010) (1)
The Bivalent Leadership Style (2015) (1)
The Hubris Factor in Leadership (2016) (1)
The denial of death (2009) (1)
Transformational Executive Programs: An Owner’s Manual (2016) (1)
Saving a Family Business from Emotional Dysfunction (2019) (1)
The Anarchist Within (2004) (1)
An East–West Dialogue (2004) (1)
Creating Tipping Points (2014) (1)
Developing Leaders Through Adversity (2019) (1)
Leadership and Career Development (2012) (1)
2 . 1 Chapter 2 : A Critical Review of Leadership Theory — (2013) (0)
World Class Heroes for Russia Commentary: Olga Sloutsker, Heroine for a New Russia (2004) (0)
Troika Dialog Commentary: Ruben Vardanian and Troika (2004) (0)
Feeling Sorry for the Super-Rich? (2017) (0)
A Throne of Blood: Deploying the Tools of Tyranny (2004) (0)
The Entrepreneur: Alone at the Top (2012) (0)
Ice and Flame Commentary: VimpelCom’s Founders (2004) (0)
Russian Standard Commentary: Roustam Tariko and Russian Standard (2004) (0)
Whatever It Is, I’m Against It (2021) (0)
The narcissistic leader: Myth and reality (2012) (0)
Leveraging findings from neuroscience and psychodynamic theory to tackle senior executive stress (2016) (0)
Keeping it Real (2017) (0)
The Obsessive-Compulsive Executive (2016) (0)
The Bear-King, or The Price of Hubris (2016) (0)
King Lion, or How to Build an Effective Organization (2016) (0)
The Proof of the Pudding: An Integrative, Psychodynamic Approach to Evaluating a Leadership Development Program (2010) (0)
Riding for a Fall (2017) (0)
Introduction: The clinical paradigm (2012) (0)
The Little Drum Boy or the Rise and Fall of a Flawed Leader (2021) (0)
Every Seven Seconds (2017) (0)
The Terrorist Mind: Protecting the Self by Victimizing Others (2004) (0)
The Challenges of Love and Work (2012) (0)
Group leadership coaching (2012) (0)
Addressing Transitions and Change (2012) (0)
I Forgive You All (2017) (0)
You’ve Got to Laugh (2017) (0)
Neurotic Impostors: Feeling Like a Fake (2012) (0)
The Paranoid Executive (2016) (0)
Paranoia – The Disease of Kings: Exercising Caution Beyond the Bounds of Danger (2004) (0)
Your money or your life (2009) (0)
Not All Narcissists Are Created Equal (2019) (0)
Narcissism, Envy, and Myths in Family Firms (2012) (0)
I Hate My Boss (2017) (0)
About this Research Review (2011) (0)
The Psycho-Path to Disaster (2014) (0)
The Dance of Leaders and Followers (2012) (0)
Conclusion: Creating Authentizotic Organizations (2012) (0)
‘Complex’ Executives I Have ‘Met’ in Coaching and Consulting (2012) (0)
Abominable Snowman or Bigfoot: A Psychoanalytic Search for the Origin of Yeti and Sasquatch Tales (1982) (0)
The Attachment Imperative (2014) (0)
Complete the Series (2012) (0)
The Whisperer’s Dance (2020) (0)
The inner world of money (2009) (0)
Leadership Unhinged: Essays on the Ugly, the Bad, and the Weird (2021) (0)
Do You Identify with the Aggressor (2019) (0)
Can Organizations Provide Wellness (2021) (0)
El iconoclasta virginal: Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Cola, Virgin Snow... ¿Acaso no tiene límite la virginidad del jefe ejecutivo Richard Branson? (1999) (0)
Do You Want to Be Led by a Dictator (2019) (0)
A-Players or B-Players? (2020) (0)
The M&A Crap Game (2017) (0)
The Self-Actualizing Equation (2021) (0)
The unconscious life of groups and organizations (2012) (0)
Happy Ever After (2016) (0)
Psychologists to the Rescue (2021) (0)
Do You Have a Corporate Culture—or a Corporate Cult? (2021) (0)
The Inner Theatre of the King: Acting Out Personal Concerns on a Public Stage (2004) (0)
The Attachment Imperative: The Hedgehog’s Kiss (2014) (0)
The impostor syndrome: The shadow side of success (2012) (0)
Love, Play, and Work (2016) (0)
OK, That’s It (2017) (0)
The Alexithymic Executive (2012) (0)
Are You Attracted to a Cult (2021) (0)
If You Can Make It There (2017) (0)
Creating “Aha!” Experiences (2021) (0)
Old Age Is Not for Sissies (2021) (0)
You Cannot Be Serious (2017) (0)
The Four Brothers, or How to Build an Effective Team (2016) (0)
Leadership Transition: Replacing a Parent as CEO (2012) (0)
Leadership by Terror: Finding Shaka Zulu in the Attic 1 (2012) (0)
In praise of “fuck-you” money (2009) (0)
Lessons From the ‘Wild East‘ : Russian Character And Leadership (2012) (0)
A Systemic View of the Business Family (2012) (0)
Creating Safe Places for Executive Play (2014) (0)
Creating a war machine (2018) (0)
It’s Not My Fault (2017) (0)
Meaning, Health, and Well-Being (2021) (0)
Thank You Kindly (2017) (0)
Ruling by Fear: Bringing Enemies and Allies Alike to Submission (2004) (0)
Leadership lessons from Alexander the Great (2018) (0)
It’s Hard Being Normal (2017) (0)
A School for Tyranny: Learning from Hardship, Betrayal and Humiliation (2004) (0)
Lessons from the bonobos (2009) (0)
Mission (Im)possible: Dealing with Narcissistic Executives (2019) (0)
What’s Pushed Out the Door Will Come Back Through the Window (2019) (0)
The Art of Meaning-Making (2021) (0)
Coping with stress (2009) (0)
Striking the right balance (2009) (0)
The Life Cycle as an Organizing Construct (2012) (0)
In Search of the New European Business Leader 1 (2012) (0)
Family Business Practices: Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses (2012) (0)
Down and Out in Beggarland (2019) (0)
The Detached Executive (2016) (0)
In the Shadow of Mortal Sin (2009) (0)
Monte Cristo in Africa: Seeking Revenge for Past Wrongs (2004) (0)
Why Follow the Leader (2012) (0)
The Cult of the CEO: The Above Averagee Effect (2017) (0)
Conclusion: Toward Authentizotic Organizations (2016) (0)
LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS * (2007) (0)
The Money Delusion (2019) (0)
Happiness and Meaning (2021) (0)
Leader of the Pack (2017) (0)
Death as Meaning-Maker (2021) (0)
Are You a Prisoner of Optical Illusions? (2020) (0)
Don’t Let Shame Become a Self-Destructive Spiral (2019) (0)
What Happened to Prince and Princess Charming (2019) (0)
The Kindly Crone, or How to Get the Best out of People (2016) (0)
Yo Suis ein European (2017) (0)
White Raven, or The Leader Who No Longer Knew Himself (2016) (0)
Let’s Install Leaders for Life (2021) (0)
Developing a Business Family Genogram (2012) (0)
Leadership Archetypes: A New Organizational Constellation (2012) (0)
Reflections on Leadership and Career Development: Kets de Vries/Reflections (2012) (0)
Let’s Install Leaders for Life! Why Get Hung up on Democracy? A Modest, “Swiftian” Proposal (2020) (0)
The Vicissitudes of Family Business (2012) (0)
The Making of a Bully (2019) (0)
The sin of covetousness (2009) (0)
Putting Family Business Intervention into Practice (2012) (0)
The Nature of Relationships: Being Unable to Establish Real Intimacy (2004) (0)
Lessons in Leadership: Teaching by Example and Omission (2004) (0)
The “Autistic” Executive (2016) (0)
Coaching across the gender divide – creating women-friendly or people-friendly organisations? (2016) (0)
Are You in the Rescuing Business (2014) (0)
Telling Fairy Tales in the Boardroom: How to Make Sure Your Organization Lives Happily Ever After (2015) (0)
The management of meaning (2018) (0)
The Power of Storytelling (2021) (0)
The Question of Organizational Culture (2012) (0)
The Ugly American (2019) (0)
Why Do We Do What We Do (2017) (0)
The dying of the light (2009) (0)
The Psychopathic Executive (2016) (0)
Can Leaders Change? Yes, But Only If They Want To (2012) (0)
Following the Leader: Colluding in Cruelty (2004) (0)
You don’t get out alive (2009) (0)
Leadership Coaching for Organizational Transformation (2012) (0)
The play of sexuality (2009) (0)
Striving for the “Endless Ocean” (2018) (0)
The CEO Whisperer (2021) (0)
Just Write it Down (2017) (0)
Don’t Regret Regrets (2021) (0)
A strategic genius (2018) (0)
Looking for wild strawberries (2009) (0)
The Epitaph Question (2019) (0)
An Existential Dive (2021) (0)
The Origins of Leadership (2012) (0)
Why Them and Not Me (2017) (0)
Leaders and followers: Moving away from people (2012) (0)
The Art of Forgiveness (2014) (0)
Conclusion: Creating High - Commitment Organizations (2012) (0)
Conclusion: The Twice-Born Experience (2012) (0)
Dancing with Vampires: Preventing Tyranny through Effective Governance (2004) (0)
A Psychological Perspective on Business Families (2012) (0)
Are there differences in how leaders lead across the globe? A dynamic approach to cross-cultural influences on the leadership process (2016) (0)
The Rot at the Top (2020) (0)
The contradictions of desire (2009) (0)
Are You Suffering from D.A.D. (2019) (0)
Transcending the ultimate narcissistic injury (2009) (0)
Interpersonal and Group Processes (2012) (0)
Why Wisdom Can’t Be Taught (2019) (0)
Creating Best Places to Work (2021) (0)
Making the Best of It (2017) (0)
Leaders and followers: Moving against people (2012) (0)
Executive Group Coaching: Interventions Not for the Faint of Heart (2019) (0)
Death in our post-industrial age (2009) (0)
Going into that good night (2009) (0)
Putting things in perspective (2009) (0)
Reaping The Whirlwind: Managing Creative People (2012) (0)
The Bolshevik Evolution Commentary: Jacques Ioffé’s Bolshevik Evolution (2004) (0)
The “Freudian” Trajectory (2021) (0)
The zen of money (2009) (0)
Team or Harem (2017) (0)
A Tale of Two Organizations: Creating Best Places to Work (2019) (0)
Shine, Shine, Shine (2017) (0)
The Icarus Syndrome (2021) (0)
The elusive concept of happiness (2009) (0)
The Loneliness of Command (2020) (0)
Hindsight and Foresight (2004) (0)
Leadership and Personality (2012) (0)
You and Your Technostress: Relating Personality Dimensions to ICT-Related Stress (2016) (0)
A Leadership Laboratory (2021) (0)
The sexual imagination (2009) (0)
Frontstep Russia Commentary: Maria Ilyina and Frontstep (2004) (0)
Beyond Coaching BS (2019) (0)
Mars meets venus (2009) (0)
Accepting Your Shadow Side (2019) (0)
Our Inner Theater (2020) (0)
Unraveling the mystery of organizations (2012) (0)
Diagnosing Family Entanglements (2012) (0)
The Pathology of Leadership (2012) (0)
The CEO Mega-Pay Bonanza (2019) (0)
Entering the inner theatre of the king (2018) (0)
The Impostor Syndrome (2012) (0)
In the Shadow of Death (2021) (0)
The Narcissistic Executive (2016) (0)
The Clinical Rating Scales and the Circumplex Model (2012) (0)
Conclusion: Turning the Coaching Kaleidoscope (2010) (0)
The Rollercoaster Ride of Change (2021) (0)
When Lions Are Led by a Donkey (2021) (0)
Changing People and Organizations (2012) (0)
A Strange Tale of Hatred (2021) (0)
A global perspective on leadership (2005) (0)
Webs of Endless Possibility Life Lessons from the “Great Mother” as Told by a Black Widow and her ten Little Spiders (2020) (0)
A parade of personalities (2012) (0)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky Commentary: Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Yukos (2004) (0)
The Making of a Military State: Honing the Assegai (2004) (0)
The “Bipolar” Executive (2016) (0)
In Search of Answers (2021) (0)
How Close-Minded Are You? (2021) (0)
Death and the human life cycle (2009) (0)
The Development of the Leader Within the Global Corporation (2012) (0)
Are You Addicted to Power (2019) (0)
THE COACHING ASSESSMENT (2011) (0)
Elation and its vicissitudes (2012) (0)
Midlife-Stop the World, I Want to Get Off (2012) (0)
The Oldest Question (2021) (0)
I Won’t, Therefore I Am (2021) (0)
A Zen Kōan (2021) (0)
Taking the road less travelled (2012) (0)
What Good Is Empathy (2019) (0)
Coach or Couch Anybody (2004) (0)
Listening with the Third Ear (2012) (0)
The Wise Fool (2019) (0)
Living in the “I” world (2020) (0)
The Hypomanic Personality (2012) (0)
The People Dimension in Organizations (2012) (0)

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