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John Wiley & Sons Inc Leader On The Couch by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence organizational life has typically been hostile to the inner world of feeling. Rationality is deemed superior to feeling which can contaminate judgment. But without feeling there is no passion and no action. This book sets out to change people and organizations for the better by revealing the dark side of leadership behaviour and its impact on performance. Tapping into the startling parallels between the journey to emotional intelligence the process of psychoanalysis the practice of leadership coaching and the Zen journey to enlightenment renowned thinker Manfred Kets de Vries helps executives consultants and coaches to peel back the layers of selfdeception and reveal how inner personality largely hardwired since early childhood affects the way they lead and manage others.