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.

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

What happened to Narcissus? -- Mirror, mirror on the wall -- The narcissistic trainwreck -- The imperative to win -- Are you prone to hubris? -- The macabre dance of hubris and nemesis -- The malignant narcissist -- Wrestling with a narcissist -- Influencing narcissists through group dynamics --...

Introduction -- Being a storyteller -- The storytelling "cure" -- The Scheherazade method -- Leaders who tell stories rule the world -- Stories that plead for help -- The golden larva syndrome -- The idiocy of stupidity -- Beyond stupidity -- Overcoming adversity -- The influencers' world of...

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...

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...