Manfred Florian Kets de Vries

Background

Vries, Manfred Florian Kets de was born on August 19, 1942 in Huizen, Holland. Son of Jonas and Henriette Kets de Vries.

Education

Economic Drs. (Master of Science), University Amsterdam, 1966. Master of Business Administration, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968. Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970.

Psychoanalytic Certified, Canada Psychoanalytic Institute, Montreal, 1982.

Career

Research fellow, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, 1968-1971, 73-74; assistant professor, European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires), Fontainebleau, France, 1971-1973; professor organizational behavior, European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires), Fontainbleau, France, 1974-1985; professor, McGill University, Montreal, 1974-1985; professor, H.E.C. Montreal, 1980-1981; professor, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, 1983-1984; Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt professor human resource management, European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires), since 1992.

Achievements

• Manfred Florian Kets de Vries has been listed as a noteworthy Psychoanalyst, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Neurotic Organization: Diagnosing and Changing Counterproductive Styles of Management

    (Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggr...)

  • Leaders, Fools and Impostors: Essays on the Psychology of Leadership

    (In this book of insightful essays, Kets de Vries explodes...)

  • Leaders, Fools and Impostors: Essays on the Psychology of Leadership

    (In this book of insightful essays, Kets de Vries explodes...)

  • The Leader on the Couch : A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations(Hardback) - 2006 Edition

    (Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, or...)

  • Reflections on Groups and Organizations: On the Couch With Manfred Kets de Vries

    (Reflections on Groups and Organizations is the third and ...)

  • Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management

    (This book takes the reader on a journey into the individu...)

  • Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane: Essays on Irrational Organizations and Their Leaders

    (World-renowned management guru and expert in corporate ne...)

  • Prisoners of Leadership

    (An original and stimulating foray into the mind of a lead...)

  • Leaders, Fools, and Impostors: Essays on the Psychology of Leadership (Jossey-Bass Management Series) by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries (1993-07-22)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Organizational Paradoxes
  • By Kets De Vries - Neurotic Organization: 1st (first) Edition
  • Leaders, Fools and Impostors: Essays on the Psychology of Leadership by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries (2003-08-10)
  • The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries (12-Sep-2006) Hardcover
  • Unstable at the Top
  • Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane: Essays on Irrational Organizations and Their Leaders by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries (1995-09-12)
  • The Neurotic Organization: Diagnosing and Changing Counterproductive Styles of Management by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries (1984-08-28)

Membership

Fellow Academy Management. Member American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, International Psychoanalytic Association, Canadian Psychological Association, International Society of Political Psychology, International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

Interests

• Avocations: fly fishing, hunting.

Connections

Married Elisabet Engellau, August 9, 1973. Children: Eva, Fredrik, Oriane.

Father:

Jonas Kets

Mother:

Henriette Kets

Spouse:

Elisabet Engellau

child:

Fredrik Vries

child:

Eva Vries

child:

Oriane Vries