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Reflections on Organizations is the third and final book in the On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries series.

Broadening the canvas, this book examines concepts of organizational health, performance, and change. Material ranges from studies of high performance teams – based on time the author spent with the pygmies of central Africa – to the use of coaching techniques to improve personal and organizational functioning.

Kets de Vries looks at the interpersonal and group processes that determine how organizations work within specific contexts, including family firms. He studies dysfunctional leader-follower relationships, downsizing, and organizational transformation. Kets de Vries also introduces his concept of the “authentizotic” organization – a pleasant, healthy, well-functioning workplace.

Manfred was honoured in November 2009 in Los Angeles at the International Leadership Association's 10th conference when he and six others were inducted into the Leadership Legacy Project of the ILA and given Lifetime Achievement Awards. (Manfred was also the first non-American recipient of the International Leadership Award for “his contributions to the classroom and the board room” by the ILA back in November 2005). This is the first time that this very prestigious organization has honoured "founding professionals in the development of leadership as a field and as a discipline."

This was a huge honour for Manfred, Bernard Bass & Joseph Rost (posthumously), Warren Bennis, James MacGregor Burns, and Frances Hesselbein --a truly stellar group of leadership pioneers. The presentation ceremony of the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday 13th November was before a packed amphi. Laurent Lapierre, his old student and Professor of Leadership at HEC, Montreal, gave a very fitting and unusual introduction and personal tribute to Manfred's lifework, touching on his many accomplishments in the field of leadership. During the conference and various gala dinners Manfred sat beside Frances Hesselbein and met Warren Bennis.

	Introduction	ix
	About This Book	xix
	Acknowledgements	xxi
	PART 1 INTERPERSONAL AND GROUP PROCESSES	1
	Introduction	2
1	Folie à Deux: Acting Out Your Superior's Fantasies	5
2	Group Dynamics	27
3	High Performance Teams: Lessons From the Pygmies	43
	PART 2 THE PEOPLE DIMENSION IN ORGANIZATIONS	65
	Introduction	66
4	The Question of Organizational Culture	71
5	Personality, Culture and Organizations	91
6	The Downside of Downsizing	121
7	Beyond the Quick Fix: The Psychodynamics of Organizational Transformation and Change	151
8	The Dynamics of Family Controlled Firms	173
	PART 3 CHANGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS	191
	Introduction	192
9	Leadership Coaching for Organizational Transformation	197
10	Can Leaders Change? Yes, but Only if They Want To	225
11	The Many Colors of Success: What Do Executives Want Out of Life?	259
12	Coaching to Stardom: How to Identify and Develop Top Performers	281
	Conclusion: Creating Authentizotic Organizations	301
	References	313
	Index	327

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