Book description
In
The Hedgehog Effect
, Manfred Kets de Vries presents the case for leadership group coaching
as an experiential training ground for learning to function as a high
performance team. His group coaching model, incorporating living case
studies, has been developed over more than 20 years of delivering
programs to top-level executives and sets the standard in the field of
leadership group coaching.
Written for coaches, consultants,
leadership development directors, and anyone working in or with teams,
The Hedgehog Effect begins with an in-depth analysis of what
teams and groups are all about. The intricacies of leadership coaching
are illustrated with an elaborate example of a team coaching
intervention. In Part Two, the author applies a psychodynamic lens to
the dynamics of teams and groups, taking a close look at relationship
patterns, how groups evolve, and the phenomenon of the
group-as-a-whole. Part Three takes a more systemic perspective,
addressing the challenges that change processes pose for people in
organizations, and how to create best places to work. Kets de Vries
supports the whole with the story of an organizational change
initiative accomplished through group coaching.
Manfred Kets de Vries is the Raoul de Vitry
d'Avaucourt Chaired Clinical Professor of Leadership Development
and Founder of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre . He is a
world-class authority on global leadership and executive teams. His
Global Executive Leadership Inventory provides a tool and a process
that has been widely recognised and used in the US and Europe.
Manfred Kets de Vries and his associates have a distinctive competence
in the in-house assessment of the quality of organizational
leadership.
