Living in a Psychotic Age -- Are you a Sheeple? -- Feeling Wronged as a Way of Life -- The Act of Reparation -- The Populist Leadership Threat -- Anti-Demagoguery -- Do Dictatorships Deserve Such a Bad Rap? -- The Rise of the Leviathan -- The Horrors of War.

Part 1: Managing Self -- Chapter 1: What do the five pillars of meaning mean to you? -- Chapter 2: How do you rate on your “energy barometer”? -- Chapter 3: Are you creating “eureka moments”?.-Chapter 4: Is revenge a dish best not served at all? -- Chapter 5: How to cultivate patience in...

Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in order to help us understand the psychology of power and terror

Based on extensive interviews with the pioneers of Russian business and the authors' own experiences, this perceptive new book attempts to decipher the enigma of Russia's new generation of business leaders. The authors present six in-depth case studies focusing on companies of vastly differing...

This authoritative title brings together a critical selection of important academic articles and practitioner-oriented papers that reflect current thinking and practices in the growing field of leadership development. It offers a solid foundation for theoretical approaches to leadership...

1: The dark cloud of crowds -- 2: Let’s install leaders for life -- 3: The little Drum boy or the rise and fall of a flawed leader -- 4: A strange tale of hatred -- 5: I won’t, therefore I am -- 6: Life lessons from the “Great Mother” -- 7: When lions are led by a donkey.

A collection of short, bite-sized nuggets of insight into the psychological ups and downs of the leadership journey from one of the world’s top thinkers on leadership. Leadership often means living on the edge, living a life less ordinary, leaving the straight and narrow to take a more...