Through the Dark Clearly: The Art of Seeing What Others Miss

Author(s) : Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

Through the Dark Clearly: The Art of Seeing What Others Miss

Book Details

  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 212
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Organisational Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 98679
  • ISBN 13 : 9781800134935
  • ISBN 10 : 1800134932

Table of Contents

About the author
Preface

Part I: Personal reflections on the human condition
1. Using yourself as an instrument
2. Smiling on stage
3. The quiet gravity of secrets
4. The secrets your partner might never tell you
5. Schmooze or lose: Networking’s fine line

Part II: Organizational reflections: On sanity and madness in leadership
6. Once upon a fairy tale
7. Are you creating “Eureka Moments”?
8. Humor and leadership
9. High performers: A study in paradoxes
10. The inner saboteur
11. The behaviors that drive other executives crazy
12. The art of obfuscation: Reflections on human evasion
13. How to plan for succession without actually doing it
14. Agreeing to disagree: Tolerance and rigidity in leadership

Part III: Societal reflections: Psychology, power, and the collective mind
15. The stealth motivator: Dying to live
16. The hundred-yard lesson
17. One for all
18. The selfie generation
19. The coaching “gold rush”
20. The quiet cure: Ecotherapy
21. Leaving a better world for our children

Epilogue
22. Sex, power, money: Trying to have it all

Index

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