Transform your leadership strategy with this insightful guide from a world-renowned management thinker, psychoanalyst and executive coach

Data, knowledge, and information are vital components of effective leadership, but they’re not the only things that managers, executives, coaches, and other leaders need to motivate and inspire their team. Humility, judgment, empathy, and compassion are equally—if not more—important.

In Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times, veteran leadership expert, psychoanalyst, and executive coach Manfred Kets de Vries delivers an eye-opening new approach to leadership—one that focuses on wisdom, reflection, and courage. You’ll learn to emphasize the Golden Rule–treating others the way you wish to be treated–and listen intently and actively. At the same time, you’ll discover how to find happiness and fulfillment in your work as you lead others with compassion and empathy.

Throughout, the author has woven in anecdotes and stories from a variety of spiritual and cultural traditions that enrich and expand on the “wisdom equation” he describes in the book. Leading Wisely is an invitation to explore the importance of wisdom as a foundational principle in our lives and leadership strategies, and is essential reading for anyone in a position of leadership or authority.

Discover true leadership with this actionable guide from a world renowned leadership expert, psychoanalyst, and executive coach

In Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times, renowned leadership expert, psychoanalyst and executive coach Manfred Kets De Vries delivers an insightful and unique exploration of what it means to lead with wisdom. The book demonstrates that exclusive reliance on knowledge, data, and information yields a superficial leadership style lacking in depth and discernment. What's more important in the wisdom equation is possessing humility, judgment, empathy, compassion, and night vision.

With eleven chapters full of anecdotes and tales from a variety of spiritual and cultural traditions that enrich and lend a deeper significance to the choices we make as leaders and members of organizations, Leading Wisely provides readers with:

• A thorough exploration of dealing with negative—but entirely natural motivations, like envy and greed
• An emphasis on the Golden Rule—treating others as we like to be treated ourselves
• An opportunity to be courageous—to consciously and intentionally pick our battles, saving energy for what really matters
• Lessons on how to listen intently and actively, truly hearing what our colleagues, friends, family, and followers are saying before reacting
• Finding happiness within ourselves

• Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times is a startlingly incisive book, filled with messages that make the book required reading for anyone in a position of leadership or power. It also belongs in the libraries of well-being and health practitioners who frequently deal with businesspeople as clients or patients.