Coach and Couch 2nd edition: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (INSEAD Business Press)

Professor Manfred Kets de Vries and his colleagues have helped thousands of executives to increase their effectiveness in dealing with colleagues and clients, and to refocus their own professional and personal aspirations. This book is a volume of essays on leadership development topics written by academics, coaches, and change consultants. It explores how extraordinary leaders and thriving organizations are created by sharing research methodologies and insights, and by describing intervention and change techniques. Drawing upon substantial research, this book presents the essential leadership models and equips practitioners with tools for developing executive coaches and working with business leaders. This second edition includes new chapters on executive stress and coaching across the gender divide. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii Introduction: A Psychodynamic Approach to Leadership Development....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 The Clinical Paradigm: A Primer for Personal Change....Pages 19-28 Group Dynamics: What Coaches and Consultants Need to Watch Out for....Pages 29-40 Developmental Coaching from a System’s Point of View....Pages 41-63 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Transformational Executive Programs: An Owner’s Manual....Pages 67-85 The Case for Not Interpreting Unconscious Mental Life in Consulting to Organizations....Pages 86-105 Executive Education from the Participant’s Point of View....Pages 106-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 The Art of Listening....Pages 121-137 The Dos and Don’ts of Coaching: Key Lessons I Learned as an Executive Coach....Pages 138-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 Coaching: A Chairman’s Point of View....Pages 155-175 Leadership Coaching in Family Businesses....Pages 176-194 Reflections on Teaching Leaders to Coach: Using the Self as a Tool in Developing Others....Pages 195-210 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Coaching Executives Across Cultures....Pages 213-229 Executive Stress—Taboo or Opportunity for Change?....Pages 230-240 Coaching Across the Gender Divide—Creating People-Friendly Organizations....Pages 241-252 Conclusion: Toward Authentizotic Organizations....Pages 253-262 Back Matter....Pages 263-270