Reflections on Groups and Organizations

Manfred Kets de Vries brings a much-needed fresh perspectiveto the subjects of leadership and change, drawing on his knowledgeof economics, management, psychology and psychoanalysis.
He is Clinical Professor of Leadership at INSEAD where he holds theRaoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development.He is also a Visiting Distinguished Professor at the EuropeanSchool of Management and Technology, (ESMT), Berlin. In addition,he has held professorships at McGill University, the Ecole desHaute Etudes Commerciales in Montreal, and Harvard Business School,and has lectured at management institutions all over the world. Heis the author, co-author, or editor of more than 35 books,including The Leader on the Couch and Family Business onthe Couch, and over 300 articles and papers.
The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirstschaftwoche, andThe Economist have judged Manfred Kets de Vries one of theworld's leading thinkers on leadership. In 2008, he washonored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the InternationalLeadership Association as a "founding professional of thedevelopment of leadership as a field and as a discipline."Previously, in 2005, he was the first non-American recipient of theILA Leadership Award for his "contributions to the classroom andthe boardroom." In 2010, the Dutch Psychoanalytic Institutepresented Manfred Kets de Vries with the Freud Memorial Award inacknowledgment of his exceptional work on the interface betweenpsychoanalysis and organizations.