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Putting leaders on the couch
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When INSEAD Professor Manfred Kets de Vries coaches leadership teams, he effectively puts them on the couch – treating them not so much as rational actors but as emotional ones.

A clinical professor of leadership development, Kets de Vries says “the autocratic leadership style doesn’t work so well any more in a knowledge society.”

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The global business leader
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INSEAD Dean Frank Brown

Leadership has nothing to do with titles. J. Frank Brown, the Dean of INSEAD, has met a lot of CEOs in his two-and-a-half decades in business and many of them are little more than LINOs – Leaders In Name Only. 

“A lot of people talk about leadership and not that many actually do it,” Brown said in an interview with INSEAD Knowledge. Read more..

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The new deal at the top
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Yves Doz
Most companies have key managers reporting directly to the CEO on a one-to-one basis, with responsibility for their units or regions,” says Yves Doz, who holds the Timken chair in Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD.

Most companies have key managers reporting directly to the CEO on a one-to-one basis, with responsibility for their units or regions,” says Yves Doz, who holds the Timken chair in Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD. Read more..

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Having read "Coach and Couch" and other writings of Professor Manfred Kets de Vries, I am very impressed with the research and programs INSEAD has developed regarding leadership. We at the Hoffman Institute present a personal growth process that has profound implications for leadership development.

Stanley Stefancic, Director of Special Projects,
Hoffman Institute, San Rafael, California
posted on : 07-May-2008

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