REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP

PREFACE xix That ’ s where I thought I could make a real contribution with my clinical training. FIRST CASE: AN ENTREPRENEUR I s ...

xx PREFACE As he ’ d needed help with the writing, he had taken on a ghost writer. What began as a professional relationship tur ...

PREFACE xxi THE CLINICAL PARADIGM I see my contribution as a very modest one. Hasn ’ t it been said that we all stand on the sho ...

xxii PREFACE ABOUT THIS BOOK Refl ections on Character and Leadership examines some of the major issues about leadership. What m ...

LEADERS, FOOLS, AND IMPOSTERS PART I ...

INTRODUCTION In using the characterological approach, the therapist, coach, consultant or other change agent tries to identify a ...

INTRODUCTION 3 the client will, in various ways, contribute the kind of material that provides insight into the discontinuities ...

4 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP feel imposturous, a very prevalent condition among the best and the brightest. At a ce ...

INTRODUCTION 5 couple goes to a fair where there ’ s a large fortune - telling machine. The husband puts in a coin and receives ...

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble - making individual. — Natalie Clifford Barne ...

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY 7 idea into something concrete. Entrepreneurs also have the ability to instill highly contagious ...

8 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP asked for my help because they saw my clinical background as useful in untangling comp ...

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY 9 Sociological and Anthropological Approaches According to these disciplines a factor such as so ...

10 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston, or Sophia Antipolis in the south of France. The ...

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY 11 rather remote from even his closest relatives. This type of person gives the impression of be ...

12 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP experience structure as stifl ing. They fi nd it very diffi cult to work with others ...

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY 13 as it stifl es information fl ow, hampers decision - making, and inhibits the attraction and ...

14 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP gamesmanship will be rampant. Such entrepreneurs will interpret harm- less acts as th ...

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY 15 recurring dream he had. In the dream, he would be standing on a balcony, looking down, and se ...

16 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP relationships we develop with others are colored by the kinds of defenses we use. Peo ...