Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane

MANFRED F. R. KETS DE VRIES holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Human Resource Management at the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in Fountainebleau, France. He has previously held a professorship at Harvard Business School and is the author of several books including Leaders, Fools, and Imposters (Jossey-Bass, 1993).

• Part One: Leaders and the Organization1. If I'm the Leader, Will Anyone Follow? A Definition of Leadership2. Welcome to the Snake Pit: The New CEO3. Boiled Frogs and Dancing Elephants: Change and Downsizing4. Merger Fever: Managing Acquisition5. Do You Like Singing the Company Song? Corporate Culture6. A Cultural Tower of Babel: Managing Across Borders7. Are You Sure You Want to Work Abroad? International Assignments8. Do You Have the Right Stuff? The Making of a Global Leader9. When the Future Is Now: Leadership for the Next MillenniumPart Two: Leaders and Individuals10. Is Anatomy Really Destiny? Women as Leaders11. Joining the Family Burlesque: Family Firms12. Reaping the Whirlwind: Creativity at Work13. CEOs Also Have the Blues: Succession and Retirement14. Do Workaholics Have More Fun? Balancing Work and Pleasure15. Dead Fish, Incorporated: Alexithymia in Organizations16. Doing a Maxwell: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship17. Why Work for a Genghis Khan? Identifying with the Aggressor18. Leaders Who Go Off the Deep End: Narcissism and Hubris19. Conclusion: In Praise of a Little Madness