Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster
An observer’s guide
Gebonden Engels 2016 9783319451619Samenvatting
A collection of short, bite-sized nuggets of insight into the psychological ups and downs of the leadership journey from one of the world’s top thinkers on leadership.
Leadership often means living on the edge, living a life less ordinary, leaving the straight and narrow to take a more exciting path. Like riding a roller coaster, there will be moments that take our breath away but it is in those moments that we feel truly alive. Although we may not know what is coming round the next bend or after the next rise, we have a great time on the ride.
Kets de Vries’s examination of the “inner theatre” pushes leaders and their coaches to become a personal and organizational detectives, to look beyond the obvious and discover the deeper meaning of their own and others’ actions. Doing so can prevent leaders becoming prisoners of their own past, failing to recognize the repetitive patterns in their behavior, making the same mistakes over and over again.
Leaders are more likely than followers to experience ups and downs, successes and failures, happy days and sad. The intensity of the experience depends on the “rider.” They can scream or enjoy the ride—or, indeed, do both. They can make the best out of the beginnings and endings, the good times and bad, or they can sink beneath them. In Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster Kets de Vries provides leaders and their coaches with the insights that can help them take some control of the ride.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
<p>1 I hate my boss</p>
<p>· Toxic relationships</p>
<p>2 Riding for a fall</p>
<p>· Hubris</p>
<p>3 Why them and not me?</p>
<p>· Envy</p>
<p>4 Feeling sorry for the super-rich?</p>
<p>· Affluenza</p>
<p>5 It’s not my fault</p>
<p>· Denialism</p>
<p>6 It’s hard being normal</p>
<p>· Mental health issues</p>
<p>7 The M&A crap game</p>
<p>· Marriage is hard work< <p>8 Team or harem?</p>
<p>· The me, me, me leader</p>
9 Alpha male behavior</p>
<p>· Bonobo or gorilla?</p>
10 Round and round we go</p>
<p>· The leadership life cycles</p>
11 OK, that’s it</p>
<p>· Retirement</p>
<p>12 What, already?</p>
<p>· Death</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Part 2 Going up…</p>
<p>13 You’ve got to laugh</p>
<p>· Humor in the workplace</p>
<p>14 I forgive you all</p>
<p>· On forgiveness</p>
<p>15 Thank you kindly</p>
<p>· On gratitude</p>
<p>16 Every seven seconds</p>
<p>· Sexuality</p>
<p>17 Just get on with it</p>
<p>· <Getting things done</p>
<p>18 “Ich bin ein European”</p>
<p>· Identity issues</p>
<p>19 If you can make it there…</p>
<p>· Global coaching</p>
<p>20 Leader of the pack</p>
<p>· Leading from the front</p>
<p>21 Shine, shine, shine</p>
<p>· On being a star performer</p>
<p>22 Making the best of it</p>
<p>· Happiness</p>
Part 3 Coasting</p>
<p>23 Black, white, and gray</p>
<p>· Coping with the bivalent leadership style</p>
<p>24 Fear of failure or fear of success?</p>
<p>· Now what?</p>
<p>25 Why do we do what we do?</p>
<p>· Self-knowledge</p>
<p>26 Keeping it real</p>
<p>· The need for authenticity</p>
<p>27 You cannot be serious</p>
<p>· On gravitas</p>
<p>28 Just write it down</p>
<p>· The joy of writing</p>
<p>29 Eco-therapy</p>
<p>· Get out and about</p>
<p>30 Sweet FA</p>
<p>· The art of doing nothing</p>
Rubrieken
- Advisering
- Algemeen management
- Coaching en trainen
- Communicatie en media
- Economie
- Financieel management
- Inkoop en logistiek
- Internet en social media
- IT-management / ICT
- Juridisch
- Leiderschap
- Marketing
- Mens en maatschappij
- Non-profit
- Ondernemen
- Organisatiekunde
- Personal finance
- Personeelsmanagement
- Persoonlijke effectiviteit
- Projectmanagement
- Psychologie
- Reclame en verkoop
- Strategisch management
- Verandermanagement
- Werk en loopbaan