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.