Leading with Depth: The Impact of Emotions and Relationships on Leadership

by Claudia Nagel

Overview

Leadership goes well beyond efficient management, and the significance of emotions on the success of organisations is often underestimated. In Leading With Depth: The Impact of Emotions and Relationships, Claudia Nagel guides us through the emotional and relational fallacies of organisational leadership from both the personal and the systemic perspective. Nagel expertly weaves theory, including attachment, neuroscientific, psychodynamic, psychosocial, and psychoanalytic, with practical advice. She looks at the leader as an individual and leadership as a context within systems such as groups, organisations, and societies. The book is divided into two parts and contains thirty-eight figures to illustrate important aspects of leadership. The first chapter in each part is purely theoretical followed by more method-oriented and practical chapters, which are complemented by pertinent case studies from well-known experts in the field (coaches, consultants, or academics). Contributors include Gilles Amado, Birgitte Bonnerup, Phil Boxterk, Halina Brunning, Annemette Hasselager, Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Olya Khaleelee, Fiona Martin, Ajit Menon, Rose Mersky, Mal O'Connor, Larissa Philatova, Martin Ringer, Rob Ryan, and Kalina Stamenova. Each chapter concludes with a brief overview of the key learnings for the reader to take away. In this way, Nagel encourages practical learning and application and engagement with the text. Nagel's clear language spares the reader of academic jargon and is highly readable. The book successfully bridges the gap from theoretical concepts to real-life application and will be of value to incoming and experienced leaders alike, as well as organisational consultants and executive coaches looking to inform their practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800132306
Publisher:	Karnac Books
Publication date:	09/28/2023
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Claudia Nagel is a consultant, coach, author, and senior advisor to international organizations and their board members. She is full Professor at the VU Amsterdam University holding a chair on change and identity. As an economist (MBA), organisational psychologist (Ph D) and chartered psychoanalyst (ISAP), Claudia is an expert on strategic management, leadership, and change processes. She runs her own consulting business, Nagel & Company. Claudia is president of ISPSO and top executive coach for Coach Source. She talks and publishes extensively on behavioural strategy and the psychodynamics of strategy, leadership, and change, and is author of Psychodynamic Coaching (2020, Routledge).

Table of Contents

Foreword by Anton Obholzer Overview Introduction: Hidden forces PART I: THE PERSONAL Setting the tone Managing and holding Case study of negative capability - avoiding premature decisions Larissa Philatova Effective and dysfunctional leaders Case study of a narcissistic leader - a star or showman? Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries We are all mammals Case study of affective states - firefighters in protection mode Fiona Martin and Claudia Nagel Repeating experiences Case study of family dynamics - the hidden brother Claudia Nagel Do women lead differently, and do they want to lead? Case study of a woman in leadership - facing up to socialisation and stereotypes Rob Ryan Making leaders Case study of leadership choice - talent is not everything Olya Khaleelee Do you need leadership coaching? Case study of coaching individuals - losing how to lead Halina Brunning PART II: THE SYSTEMIC Not staying on task: how we take care of our fear and avoid working Facing difficult decisions: dealing with defences, moral choices, and paradoxes Case study on decision making - failure is always an option Mal O'Connor Being together in the locker room: creativity, conflict, and divergent thinking Case study on creative thinking - a winning space Gilles Amado Thinking together - and how to get there Case study on shared thinking - a joint venture between failure and hubris Martin Ringer Understanding hidden feelings and culture Case study of social dream drawing - healing generational conflict Rose Mersky Leading networks and ecosystems Case study of living systems - dealing with paradoxes and emotional tensions Claudia Nagel Taking over and then? Case study of a merger - crown jewel or poison chalice Ajit Menon Love and loneliness Case study of a working couple - love, isolation, and survival Annemette Hasselager and Birgitte Bonnerup Digitalisation of our world of work Case study of digitalisation - in pursuit of better connections Phil Boxterk Leading by the screen: how to do online and hybrid right Case study of the effects of hybrid work - leading by the screen Kalina Stamenova And now? Some final reflexions with an outlook