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Executive on the Couch – What makes leaders tick or tock?

Diane L. Coutu interviews psychoanalyst and INSEAD professor Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. A Harvard Business Review excerpt.

by Diane L. Coutu

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3856&t=organizations&nl=y

Leadership is the global obsession. Thousands of recent books—many of them best sellers—have dissected the leadership styles of great leaders from Jesus to Jefferson. Business writers, too, have joined the frenzy. The trouble is, much of the business literature on leadership—unlike the broader literature on the subject—starts with the assumption that leaders are rational beings.

Excerpted with permission from "Putting Leaders on the Couch: A Conversation with Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries," Harvard Business Review, Vol. 82, No. 1, January 2004.

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Diane L. Coutu, [email protected], is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, specializing in psychology and business.

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