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THE CEO WHISPERER
MEDITATIONS ON LEADERSHIP, LIFE, AND CHANGE
The Palgrave Kets de Vries Library
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Development and Organizational Change at INSEAD, is one of the world’s leading thinkers on leadership, coaching, and the application of clinical psychology to individual and organizational change. Palgrave’s professional business list operates at the interface between academic rigor and real-world implementation. Professor Kets de Vries’s work exemplifies that perfect combination of intellectual depth and practical application and Palgrave is proud to bring almost a decade’s worth of work together in the Palgrave Kets de Vries Library. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/16661
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
The CEO Whisperer Meditations on Leadership, Life, and Change
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries Europe Campus INSEAD Fontainebleau, France
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Prologue
Four givens are particularly relevant for psycho-therapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life. ―Irvin Yalom
Sometimes, given my work at the boundaries of organizations and depth psychology, I feel like an invi
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