The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership Coping with Chaos

• Main Author: Mitroff, Ian I. (auth)
• Other Authors: Kilmann, Ralph H. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2021
• Series: Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership
• Subjects: Business strategy; Occupational & industrial psychology; Industry & industrial studies; Business Strategy/Leadership; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Industries; Business Strategy and Leadership; Organizational Psychology; Open Access; Enlightened versus Malignant Leadership; Paranoid-Schizoid Position and COVID-19; Predatory Capitalism; Proactive crisis management and COVID-19; Wicked Messes and COVID-19; Muddled Ethics of the Coronavirus; Inquiry Systems as Coping Mechanisms; Jungian Analysis of COVID-19; Meta-Heuristics for coping with messes
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

This open access book provides a comprehensive look at the pluses and minuses of leadership in times of an unparalleled crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. It examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, crisis management, and especially from the standpoint of complex, messy systems. It analyses how leaders need to think and act differently to cope better with-and potentially prevent-future crises.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (86 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-71764-3
9783030717643

Access

Open Access