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Includes personal anecdotes, case examples, and vignettes with short, concise chapters making this book easy reading for the busy executive.
At this critical junction in the history of humankind, leaders that are proficient in magical thinking aren’t going to solve our problems. Creating alternative realities is not the answer. We need a very different kind of leadership―leaders who can resist the calls of regression and whose outlook is firmly based in reality. We need leaders who analyze and draw conclusions from, or use their own experiences as a development tool, face their strengths and weaknesses, and critique their own experiences in order to build new understandings.
In this very personal and entertaining book, Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the “gurus” in the field of leadership studies offers his thoughts on leadership and life, reflections written for executives and the people who deal with them. As a psychoanalyst and leadership professor let loose in the world of renowned global organizations―as a passionate educator and scholar, or just a human being at the receiving end of heart-rending emails―he examines the pitfalls of leadership and the challenges for the professionals who work with senior executives in today’s AI-focused world.
He points out why leaders can derail, and what steps they can take to prevent this from happening. Ultimately, this book encourages you to “Know yourself,” but makes no bones about the challenge it represents. Understanding our “inner theatre” will always be an uphill struggle. Kets de Vries points out why deep dives into our inner world are always fraught with many anxieties.
Included in the many subjects covered by the author are the loneliness of command, the management of disappointment, the destructive role of greed, the impact of stubbornness, the role of storytelling, the importance of wellness, and the role of corporate culture. In addition, the book addresses the important topic of how to create great teams and best places to work. Furthermore, the book touches on endings– the ending of our career and the growing realization of the inevitable ending of our life. As time grows short, Kets de Vries emphasizes that we have no time to lose in dealing with our anxieties, regrets, and the things we spend much of our life determined not to see.
Taking a deep dive into self-knowledge requires courage and support, and he is here to guide you through it.
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Oriens 2023
Fr Joel Sember
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'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot,
Henry James and Joseph Conrad. . .'
So begins what is arguably F. R. Leavis's most controversial
book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical and polemical
survey of English fiction that was first published in 1948. He puts
a powerful case for "moral seriousness" as the necessary criterion
for inclusion in any list of the finest novelists. In the course of
his argument he adds D. H. Lawrence to the pantheon, and singles
out Charles Dickens's Hard Times as the one work of his that has
the strength of 'a completely serious work of art'.
The Great Tradition is full of Leavis's characteristically
austere rejections of styles of fiction that he found lacking in
moral intensity. He dismissed Lawrence Sterne for his
'irresponsible (and nasty) trifling'. Of Henry Fielding he wrote
that he is important 'not because he leads to Mr J. B. Priestley
but because he leads to Jane Austen, to appreciate whose
distinction is to feel that life isn't long enough to permit of
one's giving much time to Fielding or any to Mr Priestley.' Joyce's
Ulysses, he said, was less a new start for fiction than 'a dead
end'.
Fiercely serious, pugnacious and stimulating, The Great
Tradition is an unforgettable defence of 'those creative geniuses
whose distinction is manifested in their being peculiarly alive in
their time'.
What characterizes the phenomenon of (small) firm growth, and how
can it best be studied? Why and how do firms grow - and why don't
they? Is firm growth externally determined or the result of
managers' visions and actions? What are the different paths that
firms follow in order to achieve high growth? Is growth evidence of
entrepreneurship - and is growth always desirable? In this book,
three leading scholars have integrated some of their most important
research in order to answer these questions on firm growth. The
result is a volume that builds on studies of many thousands of
firms in several different projects. It offers deep insights into
the firm growth phenomenon and how it can be studied. This
research-based study promises to be a valuable resource for
academics and students focussing on business and management, and,
more specifically, entrepreneurship. Researchers who aspire to
design and conduct further studies leading to deeper and better
established insights into firm growth will also find the book
invaluable, as will those who encourage and assist firm growth as
part of their profession.
What characterizes the phenomenon of (small) firm growth, and how
can it best be studied? Why and how do firms grow - and why don't
they? Is firm growth externally determined or the result of
managers' visions and actions? What are the different paths that
firms follow in order to achieve high growth? Is growth evidence of
entrepreneurship - and is growth always desirable? In this book,
three leading scholars have integrated some of their most important
research in order to answer these questions on firm growth. The
result is a volume that builds on studies of many thousands of
firms in several different projects. It offers deep insights into
the firm growth phenomenon and how it can be studied. This
research-based study promises to be a valuable resource for
academics and students focussing on business and management, and,
more specifically, entrepreneurship. Researchers who aspire to
design and conduct further studies leading to deeper and better
established insights into firm growth will also find the book
invaluable, as will those who encourage and assist firm growth as
part of their profession.
Manfred Kets de Vries wears many “hats”—psychoanalyst,
executive coach, consultant, management educator, researcher,
writer—but he has noticed that whichever hat he is wearing, every
question he is asked boils down to one thing: “How can I live a
well-lived life?” Over many years of practice in all these
disciplines, Professor Kets de Vries has realized the unsurpassed
value of stories in tackling human dilemmas and providing answers
to this question. The book is, therefore, one of the most important
books he has written for coaches, students, leaders, managers,
educators – or anyone seeking a more reflective text to guide
them through the multitude of questions that we face in work and in
life. He draws on a long literary tradition of the unexpected
encounter with a wise “other”, fantastic or magical—think The
Little Prince, Alice in Wonderland, The Once and Future King, the
Harry Potter novels—to animate an exploration of the deepest
questions and concerns of human beings. He constructs an extended
Socratic dialogue between his two “selves,” the first a naïve
traveler, lost in the Siberian wilderness, and the second a
reflective avatar who comes to his aid. The avatar takes the form
of a “kabouter”, a familiar figure in Dutch folklore whose
counterpart can be found in different cultures around the world and
throughout centuries of storytelling. Through stories, riddles, and
puzzles, the kabouter challenges the traveler to question and
reflect upon his life and values, guiding the traveler—and
readers—toward the insights that will help them achieve a life
well lived.
George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual
turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately
determined as the first week of July 1942." This book argues that
it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at about
21.00 hrs on 2 July 1942, when Rommel's tanks withdrew for the
first time since the fall of Tobruk on 20 June, or arguably since
14 January 1942 at El Agheila. At dusk on Wednesday 1 July 1942,
Rommel broke through the centre of the British defences at Alamein.
His tanks had overwhelmed the gallant defence of the 18th Indian
Infantry Brigade in the Deir el Shein at the foot of the Ruweisat
Ridge. At that moment, and for the next twelve hours, there was no
further organised defence between the spearhead of the Afrika Korps
and Alexandria. Throughout the next day, only a handful of men and
guns stood between Rommel and his prize. In Cairo, black clouds of
smoke from burning files showed that many people believed Rommel
would not stop short of the Suez Canal, his stated objective. But,
on Friday 3 July at 22.56 hrs, only 48 hours later, Rommel called
off his attack and ordered his troops to dig in where they stood.
The Delta was saved. Just a few weeks earlier, the 18th Indian
Infantry Brigade, which took the brunt of the initial attack on 1
July, and the guns of the small column known as Robcol that stopped
Rommel on 2 and 3 of July, had been in northern Iraq. General
Auchinleck's desperate measure, pulling them 1,500 miles from Iraq
into the Western desert, just succeeded but it greatly increased
the price of failure. If Robcol had failed, it is doubtful that
Rommel would have stopped at the canal; it does not require much
imagination to see his forces threatening to link up with
Barbarossa in the Ukraine. This vivid account of the battle of
Ruweisat Ridge, the beginning of the battle of Alamein, was written
by an officer who was part of Robcol on the fateful day.
Manfred Kets de Vries wears many “hats”—psychoanalyst,
executive coach, consultant, management educator, researcher,
writer—but he has noticed that whichever hat he is wearing, every
question he is asked boils down to one thing: “How can I live a
well-lived life?” Over many years of practice in all these
disciplines, Professor Kets de Vries has realized the unsurpassed
value of stories in tackling human dilemmas and providing answers
to this question. The book is, therefore, one of the most important
books he has written for coaches, students, leaders, managers,
educators – or anyone seeking a more reflective text to guide
them through the multitude of questions that we face in work and in
life. He draws on a long literary tradition of the unexpected
encounter with a wise “other”, fantastic or magical—think The
Little Prince, Alice in Wonderland, The Once and Future King, the
Harry Potter novels—to animate an exploration of the deepest
questions and concerns of human beings. He constructs an extended
Socratic dialogue between his two “selves,” the first a naïve
traveler, lost in the Siberian wilderness, and the second a
reflective avatar who comes to his aid. The avatar takes the form
of a “kabouter”, a familiar figure in Dutch folklore whose
counterpart can be found in different cultures around the world and
throughout centuries of storytelling. Through stories, riddles, and
puzzles, the kabouter challenges the traveler to question and
reflect upon his life and values, guiding the traveler—and
readers—toward the insights that will help them achieve a life
well lived.
The transfer study, a technique used in cost-benefit analysis, is
an increasingly important tool used by government agencies to
assess environmental regulatory policy. This innovative book
develops protocols for using the transfer method to approach
environmental problems and introduces several significant
conceptual and methodological advances that refine the transfer
process. The transfer approach to quantitative policy analysis
adapts information and data from existing studies and so provides
an economical way to assess potential benefits and costs for
projects. The book presents a detailed framework for examining the
transfer of information, outlines the basic steps of the method,
and discusses solutions to frequently encountered problems. It then
illustrates the method with an extensive case study of
environmental externalities from electricity generation. This case
study provides the opportunity to discuss salient aspects of the
transfer method in more detail, including conceptual principles,
the quality of original studies, empirical difficulties and
estimation techniques. It also demonstrates the use of
state-of-the-art techniques such as meta analysis to synthesise and
transfer information from multiple studies and assesses the
reliability of the transfer estimates with repeated computer
simulations, a technique known as Monte Carlo analysis.
Environmental Policy Analysis with Limited Information will appeal
to environmental policy analysts and managers as well as
environmental economists.
Discover true leadership with this actionable guide from a world
renowned leadership expert, psychoanalyst, and executive coach 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: A thorough
exploration of dealing with negative--but entirely natural
motivations, like envy and greed An emphasis on the Golden
Rule--treating others as we like to be treated ourselves An
opportunity to be courageous--to consciously and intentionally pick
our battles, saving energy for what really matters Lessons on how
to listen intently and actively, truly hearing what our colleagues,
friends, family, and followers are saying before reacting Finding
happiness within ourselves 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.
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