Posts tagged with: de Vries
Are you an alpha male leader? (2016)
“In my role as an executive coach, rather than condemning alphas for their power-driven, abrasive behaviour, I find it useful to start by focusing on their positive qualities..." Manfred Kets...
Power corrupts but it also plays with your mind: Lloyd George, Chamberlain and Thatcher all suffered from ‘hubris syndrome’. (2013)
Owen, Lord David: "British Prime Ministers such as David Lloyd George, Chamberlain and Thatcher and US President George W Bush met the clinical diagnosis of Hubris Syndrome, first described in...
Conference 2013: Kets de Vries abstract. Hubris
"..in the senior positions of organisations, hubris can become a contagious disease. Leaders become easily intoxicated by its siren’s call. Professor Manfred F R Kets de Vries The moment you...
The psychopath in the C suite: redefining the SOB. (2012)
Ring a bell? "His career was a moving disaster but through seductiveness, charm, and manipulativeness he'd got away with it. Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/119/EFE, November...
Leaders, fools and impostors: Essays on the psychology of leadership. (2003)
"The author identifies distinct leader types including the narcissist whose drive for power and prestige can bring much-needed vitality to an organisation, but whose inability to accept criticism ultimately creates a climate...
The organizational fool: Balancing a leader’s hubris. (1990)
".. explores the role of the sage-fool as means of creating a counter-vailing power against the regressive forces inherent in leadership, in other words, to reinforce the leader's capacity for reality...