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.

1. A Psychodynamic Approach to Leadership Development2. The Clinical Paradigm: A Paradigm for Personal Change3. Group Dynamics: What Coaches and Consultants Need To Watch Out For4. Developmental Coaching From a Systems Point of View5. Transformational Executive Programs: An Owner's Manual6. The Case for Not Interpreting Unconscious Mental Life in Consulting To Organizations7. Executive Education from the Participant's Point of View8. The Art of Listening9. The Dos and Don'ts of Executive Coaching10. Coaching: A Chairman's Point Of View11. Leadership Coaching in Family Businesses12. Reflections on Teaching Leaders to Coach: Using Self as a Tool in Developing Others13. Coaching Executives across Cultures14. Executive Stress ? Taboo or Opportunity for Change?15. Coaching Across the Gender Divide ? Creating People-Friendly Organizations16. Conclusion: Towards Authentizotic Organizations