Family Business on the Couch

Preface Acknowledgements PART I: QUESTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS Introduction Endnote 1 A Psychological Perspective on Business Families Psychodynamic and family systemic perspectives Key ideas from the psychodynamic approach The role of transference and countertransference The family systemic perspective A therapeutic alliance A summing-up Endnotes 2 The Challenges of Love and Work Conflicting goals in the family business The tree-circles model How conflict can develop Endnotes 3 Family Business Practices: Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses The interface of business and family practices Assessing the health of a family business Endnotes PART II: REFLECTION AND LEARNING 4 The Life Cycle as an Organizing Construct The multiple life cycles of the family business Key models of human psychological development The family life cycle Carter and McGoldrick's family-based life cycle model Applying the life cycle in family businesses Endnotes 5 Narcissism, Envy, and Myths in Family Firms Personality types Managerial implications of dysfunctional narcissism The importance of individuation The family firm as transitional object The power of envy Games families play: the role of family myths The impact of family myths on the family business Summary Endnotes 6 The Entrepreneur: Alone at the Top Common personality characteristics of founder-entrepreneurs Larry Ellison and Oracle Deciphering the inner theater of the entrepreneur Common defensive structures in founder-entrepreneurs Maintaining the balance Endnotes 7 Leadership Transition: Replacing a Parent as CEO Options for tackling the succession problem The inheritance Psychological pressures on new leaders Staying on course Endnotes 8 A Systemic View of the Business Family A two-way relationship The evolution of systems theory The development of family-systems theory The family-systems proposition Family scripts and rules Family scripts in the family business A practical example of family systems thinking Endnotes 9 Diagnosing

MANFRED F.R. KETS DE VRIES brings a unique perspective to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organizational change. He is a clinical professor of leadership development and holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD, France & Singapore. He is also the Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Center. He has held professorships at McGill University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, and the Harvard Business School, and he has lectured at management institutions around the world. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche, and The Economist have rated Manfred Kets de Vries among the world's top fifty thinkers on management and among the world's most influential people in human resource management. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 24 books and over 250 scientific papers as chapters in books and as articles. His books and articles have been translated into more than 25 languages. He was also the first non-American recipient of the International Leadership Award for "his contributions to the classroom and the board room." Kets de Vries is a consultant on organizational design/transformation and strategic human resource management to leading US, Canadian, European, African, Australian and Asian companies. As an educator and consultant he has worked in more than forty countries. DR. RANDEL S. CARLOCK is the first Berghmans Lhoist Chaired Professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership, the founding Director of the Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise and a founding board member of the Global Leadership Centre at INSEAD. Previously he was the first Opus Professor of Family Enterprise and founder of the family business center at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN (USA). Carlock has an MA in education and training (1976), an MBA in strategic

"...explores the reasons why some family businesses are dysfunctional - and how to cure them." (The Guardian, Saturday 15th September 2007) "fascinating new book" (The Independent, Tuesday 9th October 2007) "a unique insight into the subject." (Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13th December)

"...explores the reasons why some family businesses are dysfunctional - and how to cure them." (The Guardian, Saturday 15th September 2007)
 
"fascinating new book" (The Independent, Tuesday 9th October 2007)
 
"a unique insight into the subject." (Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13th December)
 
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