The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership : : Coping with Chaos.

• Superior document: Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership Series
• Author: Mitroff, Ian I.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kilmann, Ralph H.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (95 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Wrestling with the Inner Demons of Contemporary Life: A Brief Overview of Psychoanalytic Thought -- 1.1 Melanie Klein -- Splitting -- The Paranoid-Schizoid Position -- The Depressive Position -- The Paranoid-Schizoid Position and Donald Trump -- Dangers to Society -- 1.2 Donald Winnicott -- 1.3 Sigmund Freud -- 1.4 Eric Berne -- 1.5 John Bowlby -- 1.6 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2: Crises: A Major Systems Problem -- 2.1 Managing Technology -- 2.2 Proactive CM -- 2.3 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3: Wicked Messes: The Ultimate Challenge to Reality -- 3.1 Russell L. Ackoff: Messes -- 3.2 Horst Rittel: Wicked Problems -- 3.3 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4: Inquiry Systems: How Do We Know What We Need to Know? -- 4.1 Expert Consensus -- 4.2 Analytic Modeling: The One Best True Formula -- 4.3 Multiple Realities -- 4.4 Dialectics -- 4.5 The Eight Key Attributes of a Conflict Situation -- 4.6 Pragmatist Inquiry -- 4.7 An Addendum: The Muddled Ethics of the Coronavirus -- Chapter 5: Inquiry Systems as Coping Mechanisms -- 5.1 Objectivity -- Chapter 6: The Coronavirus: A Jungian Analysis -- 6.1 The Coronavirus -- 6.2 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7: Assumptional Analysis: The Key Role of Assumptions -- 7.1 Tech's Misguided Assumptions: The Intelligent Person's Guide to Thinking the Unthinkable -- End Users -- The Underlying Ideology of Technology -- The Various Contexts in Which Tech Is Used and Operates -- The Broader Groups of Stakeholders Who Interact with Tech and on Which It Depends -- Tech's Underlying Views of Crisis Management -- 7.2 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 8: Heuristics and Meta-heuristics for Coping with Messes -- 8.1 Key Heuristics for Coping with Messes -- 8.2 Concluding Remarks: The Need for Meta-heuristics.

Chapter 9: Changing the Culture of Policing: A Moral Imperative! -- Chapter 10: The Choice Is Between Mental Health and Mental Illness -- Chapter 11: Enlightened Leadership: Coping with Chaos in Increasingly Turbulent Times -- 11.1 The Problem Management Organization (PMO) -- 11.2 The Culture Track -- 11.3 The Skills Track -- 11.4 The Team Track -- 11.5 The Jungian Framework -- 11.6 S-Groups -- 11.7 The Psychodynamics of Leadership in a PMO -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: The Coronavirus and the Five Stages of Grieving -- Appendix 2: Combatting Dis- and Misinformation -- The Laws of Probability and Wicked Messes -- Appendix 3: What Is a System? -- Problems Versus Exercises -- The Disposition of Problems.