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Leading Wisely
Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries (Author)
9781119860396, Wiley
Hardback, published 3 February 2022
192 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.431 kg
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: 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.
Preface vii 1 Not knowing 1 2 Beyond book knowledge 19 3 Wisdom and sorrow 37 4 The Golden Rule 51 5 Forgiveness 61 6 Envy 73 7 Greed 85 8 Listening 95 9 Choose your battles wisely 109 10 Courage 121 11 Happiness 135 12 Conclusion 151 About the Author 159 Index 163
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
