Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise

Clinical Professor of Leadership Development

Fontainebleau Cedex, F-77305

France

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1.

Psychodynamic Approach

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2014/45/EFE
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Jun 2014
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Alicia Cheak
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise and Independent
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Psychodynamic Approach, Clinical Paradigm, Effective Leadership, Case Study, Self-Assessment

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Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change, and Stress

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2009/10/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2011
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Laura Guillen and Konstantin Korotov
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, ESMT European School of Management and Technology and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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Leadership, Organizational Change, Stress, Organizational Culture

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Developing Leaders and Leadership Development

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2010/77/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Sep 2010
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Konstantin Korotov
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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Leader and Leadership Development, Distributed Leadership, Network Building, Boundaryless Organizations, Talent Management, Corporate Universities

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Are You a Victim of the Victim Syndrome?

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/70/EFE
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Jul 2012
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 2,205 (14,734)
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victim syndrome, rescuers, masochistic, passive-aggressive, self-defeating behavior, blame game, secondary gain

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The Psychopath in the C Suite: Redifining the SOB

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/119/EFE
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Nov 2012
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 1,463 (27,901)
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SOB Executive, Psychopath "lite", Sociopath, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Toxic Leadership, Narcissism, Neurotic Organization, Clinical Paradigm Temporary Abstract

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Doing Nothing and Nothing to Do: The Hidden Value of Empty Time and Boredom

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2014/37/EFE
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 May 2014
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 1,376 (30,581)
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Busyness, Laziness, Boredom, Manic Defense, Stress, Incubation, Reflection, Left-right Brain Activity, Creativity

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Transformational Leadership Development Programs: Creating Long-Term Sustainable Change

SAGE HANDBOOK ON TEACHING LEADERSHIP, S. Snook, N. Nohria, and R. Khurana, eds., Forthcoming, INSEAD Working Paper No. 2010/72/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Sep 2010
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Konstantin Korotov
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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Group Work, 360-degree Assessments, Emotional Intelligence, Reflective Space, Leadership Development, Transformation, Motivational Need Systems, Clinical Paradigm

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Sustainable Effectiveness of a Transformational Leadership Development Program: An Exploratory Study

INSEAD Business School Research Paper No. 2009/34/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2009
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Thomas Hellwig, Pierre Vrignaud, Laura Guillen, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy and Konstantin Korotov
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, Independent, Université Paris X Nanterre, ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Independent and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
Downloads 1,100 (42,414)
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Transformational Leadership, Leadership Development Program, Group Coaching, 360-degree Assessment, Outcome Study, Global Executive Leadership Inventory

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The Greed Syndrome

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/26/EFE
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Apr 2016
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Development and Application of the Leadership Archetype Questionnaire

INSEAD Business School Research Paper No. 2009/15/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 11 May 2010
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Pierre Vrignaud, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy and Anupam Agrawal
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, Université Paris X Nanterre, Independent and Texas A&M University
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Leadership archetype, leadership behavior, character, team, executive role configuration, leadership archetype questionnaire, 360-degree survey instrument

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Insead Global Leadership Centre - 360-Degree Feedback Instruments: An Overview

INSEAD Business School Research Paper No. 2007/01/EFE
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Nov 2007
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Pierre Vrignaud, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy and Konstantin Korotov
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, Université Paris X Nanterre, Independent and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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Do you Really Want to Become a Billionaire? A Look Inside the Inner Theatre of the Super-rich

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2021/30/EFE
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Jun 2021
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 844 (61,260)
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Billionaire, Super-rich, Money Symbolism, The Big Five Psychology Model, Inner Theatre, Dark Dyad, Children, Philanthropy

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Understanding Human Stupidity in a Post-truth Area

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2023/49/EFE
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Aug 2023
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Stupidity, Pseudo-stupidity, Foolishness, Contagion, Stubbornness, Narcissism, Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Bias, Neuroscience, Group Dynamics, Leadership, Satire, Paradoxical Intervention, Education, Self-knowledge

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Leadership Coaching and the Rescuer Syndrome: How to Manage Both Sides of the Couch

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2010/104/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Dec 2010
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Rescuer Syndrome, Co-dependency, Coach-coachee Relationships, Disease to Please, Addiction, Saying "No", Rescuer Burnout, Constructive Rescuer, Transference-countertransference Reactions

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The Art of Forgiveness: Differentiating Transformational Leaders

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2013/52/EFE
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Apr 2013
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 669 (82,952)
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Forgiving, Leadership, Lex Talionis, Forgiving Personality, Stages of Forgiving, Psychodynamic, Authentizotic Organization, Psychotherapy

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Doing a Madoff: The Psychology of White-collar Criminals

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2021/55/EFE
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Sep 2021
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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White-collar Crime, Fraud Triangle, Personality, Narcissism, Psychopathy, Antisocial, Rationalization, Greed Factor, Low Self-control, Thrill-seeking Personality, Neuro-criminology, Whistleblowers, Business Schools

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Vision Without Action is a Hallucination: Group Coaching and Strategy Implementation

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2014/41/EFE
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 May 2014
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 605 (94,361)
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Group Coaching, Strategy Implementation, Execution, Psychodynamics

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Psychodynamic Issues in Organizational Leadership

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Nov 2015
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy and Konstantin Korotov
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, Independent and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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psychodynamic-systemic, psychology of leadership, OD

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Death and the Executive: Encounters with the 'Stealth' Motivator

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2014/11/EFE
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Feb 2014
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Death Anxiety, Motivation, Stealth Motivator, Narcissistic Injury, Immortality Strategies, Manic Defense, Succession Issues, Edifice Complex

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The Many Colors of Success: What Do Executives Want Out of Life?

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2009/19/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Apr 2009
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Success, Career Dynamics, Executive, Wealth, Intrinsic & External Validation, Faust Syndrome

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The Shaman, the Therapist, and the Coach

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2014/54/EFE
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Oct 2014
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Shamanism, Psychotherapy, Coaching, Depth Psychology, Collective Unconscious, Archetypes, Mystical Experiences, the Sacred, Active Imagination, Visualizing, Journey

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The Golden Larva Syndrome: Moving from Self-Sabotage to Self-Actualization

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2023/19/EFE
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Apr 2023
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Golden Larva Syndrome, Self-actualization, Self-sabotage, Fear of Failure, Fear of Success, Imposterism, Peter Panism, Dysfunctionality, Developmental Trajectory, Perfectionism, Coaching, Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic, Reframing, Visioning, Exposure Therapy

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The Group Coaching Conundrum

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/53/EFE
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 May 2012
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Coach, Group Coaching, Clinical Paradigm, Plato's Cave, Tipping Points, Transitional Space, Inner Journey

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Coaching Challenging Executives

Mastering Executive Coaching (2018), Jonathan Passmore and Bryan Underhill, (Eds.) Routledge, INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/01/EFE
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Jan 2018
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Caroline Rook
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise and University of Reading - Henley Business School
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Executive Coaching, Narcissistic, Bipolar, Psychopathic and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality

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The 'Authentizotic' Organization: Creating Best Places to Work

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/16/EFE
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Apr 2018
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 485 (124,073)

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Authentizotic, Trust, Team Culture, Fair Process, Value-Based Leadership, Sense of Community, Fun, Having a Voice, Learning Organization, Life Balance, Utopia, Best Place to Work Checklist

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I Won’t, Therefore I Am: Being Stubborn

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/42/EFE
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Stubbornness, Persistence, Leadership, Confirmation Bias, Closed Mindedness, Cognitive Complexity, Resistance to Change, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Weltanschauung

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You and Your Technostress: Relating Personality Dimensions to ICT-Related Stress

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/31/EFE
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 May 2016
Pawel Korzynski, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy and Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
Kozminski University, Independent and INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 421 (146,728)

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Technostress, Personality Assessment, Information and Communication Technologies

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Stress in Executives: Discussing the 'Undiscussable'

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/74/EFE
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Oct 2016
Caroline Rook, Thomas Hellwig, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy and Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
University of Reading - Henley Business School, Independent, Independent and INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 418 (148,009)

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Executive Stress, Psychodynamic Lens, Executive Coaching, Taboo

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The Proof is in the Pudding: An Integrative, Psychodynamic Approach to Evaluating a Leadership Development Program

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Jun 2008
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, Laura Guillen Ramo and Konstantin Korotov
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, Independent, affiliation not provided to SSRN and ESMT European School of Management and Technology
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Transitional Leadership Development, Evaluation of Leadership Development Programs, Psychodynamic Orientation to Leadership Development

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Living in a Psychotic Age

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2022/50/EFE
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Nov 2022
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 376 (166,713)

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Mass Psychosis, Psychic Epidemic, Groupthink, Social Pressure, Delusions, Conspiracies, Reality Testing, Primitive Defences, Regression, Demagogue Leaders, Totalitarian, Narcissism, Mirroring and Idealizing Transference, Mass Media, Civic Culture, Education

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The Influencers’ World of ‘Make-Believe’

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2023/21/EFE
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 May 2023
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 375 (167,192)

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Influencer, Followers, Expert Power, Pseudo-intimacy, False Self, Trust, Information Overload, the Sheeple Effect, Illusion of Control, the Reciprocity Factor, the Attractiveness Bias, the Halo Effect, Social Media, Mental Health

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Fairy Tales for Executives: Story Telling as a Catalyst for Change

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2015/22/EFE
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Mar 2015
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 369 (170,300)
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Fairy Tale, Story Telling, The Heroes’ Journey, Psychotherapy, Dreams, Symbolism, Change, The Darker Side of Leadership

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The Psychology of Evil: Reality and Imagination

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2021/47/EFE
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Sep 2021
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 357 (176,522)

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Evil, Developmental, Neurological, Evolutionary, Psychopathy Gene, Dark Dyad, Narcissism, Psychopathy, Bystander, Milgram and Zimbardo Experiments, Obedience to Authority, Compassion and Empathy

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The Happiness Conundrum

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/11/EFE
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 Mar 2016
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 349 (180,964)
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Happiness, Hedonic treadmill, Set point of Happiness, Synthesized Happiness, World Happiness Report, Mental Health, Materialism, Social Comparisons, Workplace

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The Attachment Imperative: The Kiss of the Hedgehog

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2013/51/EFE
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Apr 2013
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 345 (183,329)

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Secure, Anxious-ambivalent, Fearful Avoidant, Dismissive Avoidant, Coaching, Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic

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Action and Reflection: The Emotional Dance between Consultant and Client

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2009/21/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Apr 2009
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 340 (186,240)
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Consulting, Interpersonal Encounter, Transference, Countertransference, Projection, Listening with the Third Ear, Subliminal Perception, Action Trap

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Dream Journeys: New Territory for Executive Coaching

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2014/14/EFE
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Feb 2014
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 293 (218,163)
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Sleeping, Dreaming, Leadership Coaching, REM Sleep, Psychodynamics, Unconscious Processes, Creativity, Problem Solving

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Living in the 'I' World

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/56/EFE
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 13 Dec 2018
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 278 (230,421)

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Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft, “I” Society, Collectivism, Individualism, Narcissism, Self-esteem movement, Social media, Millennials

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Coaching's 'Good Hour': Creating Tipping Points

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2011/94/EFE
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Sep 2011
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 271 (236,529)

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Tipping Point, Regression in the Service of the Ego, Transference Cure, Amygdala, Corrective Emotional Experience, Cognitive, Emotive, and Defensive Reframing, "Aha!" Moment

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Destructive and Transformational Leadership in Africa

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/45/EFE
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Jul 2016
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Jennifer Sexton and B. Parker Ellen
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, West Virginia University and Northeastern University
Downloads 261 (245,696)
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Destructive Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Narcissism

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Get Back in the Sandbox: Teaching CEOs How to Play

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/125/EFE
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Dec 2012
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 256 (250,526)

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Play, Flow, Creativity, Transitional Object, Transitional Space, Organizational Play Therapy, Educational Play

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The Cult of the CEO: The ‘Above Average’ Effect

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2017/74/EFE
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 Nov 2017
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 248 (258,651)
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CEOs, Compensation, CEO to Worker Pay Ratio, Above Average Effect, Greed, Human Motivation, Social Contract

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Reaching Stardom: How to Identify and Develop Top Performers

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2010/75/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Sep 2010
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Trump: A Tragi-Comedy

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/22/EFE
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Jun 2018
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 240 (267,093)
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Dysfunctional Leadership, “Great Man”, Obsequiousness, Flattery, Social Defenses, Groupthink, Faulty Decision-Making

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Down the Rabbit Hole of Shame

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2017/72/EFE
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Nov 2017
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Shame, Guilt, Sense of Inferiority, Embarrassment, Shyness, Rage, Psychopathology, Alienation, Coping, Self-Compassion

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A Tale of Two Organizations: Creating the Authentizotic Organization

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2017/64/EFE
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Oct 2017
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Authentizotic organization, best place to work, clinical paradigm, trust, multi-party feedback systems, transitional space, narrative

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How Leaders Get the Worst Out of People: The Threat of Hate-based Populism

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2020/60/EFE
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 04 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2021
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 209 (304,932)
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Hatred, Anger, Contempt, Envy, Splitting, Scapegoating, Projection, Interpersonal, Intergroup, Ingroup, Outgroup, Contagion, Ideology, Dehumanization, Social Networking, Populist Leader, Demagogue

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Catching the Thief of Time: The Perils of Procrastination

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2021/56/EFE
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Oct 2021
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Procrastination, Self-regulation, Self-harm, Mental Health, Depression, Fear of Failure, Need for Perfection, Harsh Superego, Reframing, Self-compassion, Helping Professional

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The Sexual 'Cloud' in the Executive Suite

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2015/38/EFE
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 May 2015
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Sexual Desire, the Selfish Gene Effect, Gender Stereotyping, Women Discrimination, Women-Friendly Organization, Androgynous

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People-Friendly Organizations: Why We Need an Alternative Default Model

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2010/95/EFE/IGLC
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Nov 2010
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Elisabet Engellau
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Male, Female, Biology, Nature and Nurture, Social Constructivism, Hormonal Influences, Mother-child Relationships, Testosterone, Oxytocin, Tender-mindedness, Implicit Association Test, Symbolism, Psychodynamic Theories, People-friendly Organization

51.

Feeling Wronged: Victimization as a Way of Life

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2023/03/EFE
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 31 Jan 2023
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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victimhood, feeling wronged: demagogue leaders, chosen trauma, defense mechanisms, secondary gain, forgiveness, empathy, kindness, gratitude, attachment behavior, remembrance, reconciliation

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The Bivalent Leadership Style

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2015/20/EFE
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 Mar 2015
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Bivalent Leadership Style, Splitting, Binary Thinking, Defense Mechanism, Contagious Behavior, Tolerating Ambiguity, Transference, Counter-transference

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Leadership and the 7C Model: The Case of Genghis Khan

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2024/65/EFE
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Dec 2024
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Genghis Khan, 7C Leadership Model, Self-confidence, Commitment, Courage, Consideration, Creativity, Complexity, Communication, Psychology, Developmental

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The Narcissistic Trainwreck

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2023/51/EFE
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Sep 2023
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Narcissus, Constructive and Destructive Narcissism, Mirroring, The Double, The Shadow, Idealizing and Mirroring Transference, Echoists, Social Media, Alienation

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Old Age is No Place for Sissies

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2015/35/EFE
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Apr 2015
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 154 (400,568)

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Aging, Life Extension, Life Cycle, Functional Immaturity, Extreme Old Age

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Are You a Sheeple?

INSEAD Working Paper 2022/48/EFE
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2022
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 152 (404,852)

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Sheeple, Herding Behaviour, Evolution, Amygdala, Groupthink, Collective Madness, Social Contagion, Demagogue Leaders, Snake Oil Salesmen, Propaganda, Regression, Developmental, Nature-nurture

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Let’s Install Leaders for Life! Why Get Hung up on Democracy? A Modest, “Swiftian” Proposal

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2020/37/EFE
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 15 Aug 2020
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Leaders-for-life, Narcissism, Abuse of Power, Autocracy, Democracy, Corruption, Kleptocracy, Economic Decline, Social Unrest, Terror

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Do Dictatorships Deserve such a Bad Rap?

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2023/43/EFE
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Aug 2023
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Dictatorship, Democracy, Narcissism, Sheeples, Corruption, Nepotism, Terror, Scapegoating, Paranoia

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Exploring the Russian Leadership Mystique: A Plea for Change

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/53/EFE
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Nov 2018
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Downloads 139 (434,938)

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Leadership Style, Communism, Despotism, Materialism, Bureaupathology, Oblomovism, Corruption, “Managed Democracy”, Educational Reform, Character, Moral compass, Ethics, Authoritative Leadership, Management Education, Entrepreneurship

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The Rise and Fall of a Flawed Leader: The Little Drum Boy

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2020/54/EFE
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2021
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Donald Trump, Toxic Leaders, Personality Development, Family Dynamics, Attachment, Narcissism, Paranoia, Psychopathy, Authoritarianism, Populism, Cult Behavior, Irrationality

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One is the Loneliest Number: Reflections on Feeling Alone

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2024/22/EFE
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Apr 2024
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Loneliness, Solitude, Evolutionary, Psychodynamic-systemic, Pandemic, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Physical and Mental Health, Transient versus Chronic Loneliness, Interpersonal, Contextual, and Existential Loneliness, Action Steps

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The Triumph of Hope over Experience: Ten Lessons to Create Better Partner Relationships

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2021/13/EFE
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Mar 2021
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Partner Relationships, Sexual Attraction, Group Pressure, Loneliness, Unconscious Collusion, Co-dependency, Repetition Compulsion, Emotional Container, Mutual Respect, Trust, Forgiveness, Communication, Room with a View, Growth and Development

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In Praise of Dictators: A Swiftian Perspective

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2022/22/EFE, 2022
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Apr 2022
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Dictatorship, Autocracy, Democracy, Free Press, Free Speech, Independent Judiciary, Right to Demonstrate, Corruption, Terror, War, Genocide

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Putting Narcissus on the Couch

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2023/46/EFE
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 28 Aug 2023
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Narcissus, Human Development, Narcissistic Behavior, Arrested Development, Rape, Intergenerational Trauma, Helicopter Parenting, The Curse of Beauty, Separation/ Individuation

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Are you a Prisoner of Optical Illusions? The Enigma of Transference

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/44/EFE
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 25 Sep 2018
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Katharina Balazs
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise and ESCP Europe
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Transference, Optical Illusion, Mental and Emotional Schemata, Judgement Error, Unconscious, Workplace Relationships

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The Macabre Dance of Shame

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2021/27/EFE
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 28 May 2021
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Shame, Shame Proneness, Guilt, Evolutionary, Developmental, Neurological, Self-compassion

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Are You Prone to Hubris?

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2024/06/EFE
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 31 Jan 2024
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Hubris, Hubris Epidemic, Narcissism, Greek Mythology, Nemesis, Adjustment Disorder, Power

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What Happened to Prince or Princess Charming? The Enigma of Partner Choice

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/41/EFE
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 21 Sep 2018
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Partnership, Couples, Selection Criteria, Evolutionary Development, Attachment Behavior Patterns, Imprinting, Unconscious Behavior

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Sex and the Executive: The Drama of Sexual Addiction

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2024/25/EFE
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Apr 2024
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Sexual Addiction, Hypersexuality, Relationship Disorder, Attachment Behavior, Sensuality versus Sexuality, Intimacy Disorder, Sexual Trauma, Treatment, Psychodynamic, Cognitive, Group Intervention, Sex Addicts Anonymous

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Wrestling with Ambiguity: Koans as Agents of Change and their Application to the Helping Professions

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2020/26/EFE
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Jun 2020
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Koan, koan practice, Zen, managing ambiguity, helping profession, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, coaching, negative capability, not-knowing, paradoxes

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Webs of Endless Possibility Life Lessons from the “Great Mother” as Told by a Black Widow and her ten Little Spiders

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2020/23/EFE
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 May 2020
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Black widow spider, male-female relationships, feminine mystique, leadership, Machiavellianism, meaning, the Great Mother

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Haunted by Deadly Ghosts

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2024/62/EFE
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Nov 2024
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Death, Remembrance, Grief, Life Cycle, Death Anxiety, Thanatophobia, Hedonic Treadmill, Immortality Projects, Meaning

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In Praise of Boredom: A King’s Tale

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2024/08/EFE
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Feb 2024
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Boredom, Depression, Addictive Behavior, Philobath, Ocnophil, Thrill Seeking (Type T) Personality, Alexithymia, Evolutionary Considerations, Self-awareness, Self-knowledge, Helping Professional

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Helping Professional or Shaman: Is there a Difference?

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2024/58/EFE
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Sep 2024
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Shaman, Animism, Helping Professional, Psychoanalysis, Eco-therapy, Spirits, Rituals, Soul Retrieval, Self-retrieval, New Age, Guided Visualization

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The Introvert's Guide to Thriving in an Extraverted World

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2025/19/EFE
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 Feb 2025
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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introversion, extraversion, pseudo-extravert, ambivert, Carl Jung, personality adaptation, social confidence, leadership, workplace dynamics, communication skills, energy management, selfawareness, behavioral flexibility, professional growth, coaching

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A Funfare to Fun: Why Fun Matters in Life and Work

INSEAD Working Paper 2025/17/EFE
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 04 Feb 2025
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Fun, Playfulness, Philosophy, Pleasure Principle, Physiology, Neurotransmitter, Dopamine, Cortisol, Oxytocin, Developmental, Creativity, Organizational Life, Coaching

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The Entitlement Trap

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2025/20/EFE
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Mar 2025
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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Entitlement, Gratitude, Privilege, Hierarchy, Narcissism, Social Status, Self-awareness, Professional Entitlement, Moral Superiority, Historical Oppression, Consumer Culture, Resilience, Emotional Intelligence, Personal Responsibility, Humility

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The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise

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Firm performance, Management techniques, Management skills, Motivation, Autonomy, Behavior (individual), Psychological traits

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A-players or B-players?

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2019/13/EFE
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 Apr 2019
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
INSEAD - Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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A-players, B-players, C-players, Inner security, Self-esteem, Envy, Psychodynamics, Unconscious biases, Machiavellian, Hiring, Assessment, Safeguards