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The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership

Coping with Chaos

Authors:

  1. Ian I. Mitroff

    1. Mitroff Crisis Management, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Ralph H. Kilmann

    1. Kilmann Diagnostics LLC, Newport Coast, USA

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  • This book is open access, which means you have free and unlimited access

  • Examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, crisis management, and complex, messy systems

  • Enriches our understanding of complex crises such as the COVID-19 global pandemic

  • Analyses how leaders need to think and act to cope with crises

Part of the book series: Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership (MACHSTPOLE)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Crises: A Major Systems Problem

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 13-19Open Access

  4. Wicked Messes: The Ultimate Challenge to Reality

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 21-24Open Access

  5. Inquiry Systems: How Do We Know What We Need to Know?

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 25-32Open Access

  6. Inquiry Systems as Coping Mechanisms

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 33-36Open Access

  7. The Coronavirus: A Jungian Analysis

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 37-42Open Access

  8. Assumptional Analysis: The Key Role of Assumptions

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 43-48Open Access

  9. Heuristics and Meta-heuristics for Coping with Messes

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 49-58Open Access

  10. Changing the Culture of Policing: A Moral Imperative!

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 59-62Open Access

  11. The Choice Is Between Mental Health and Mental Illness

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 63-65Open Access

  12. Enlightened Leadership: Coping with Chaos in Increasingly Turbulent Times

    • Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann
    Pages 67-76Open Access

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 77-86
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About this book

This open access book provides a comprehensive look at the pluses and minuses of leadership in times of an unparalleled crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. It examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, crisis management, and especially from the standpoint of complex, messy systems. It analyses how leaders need to think and act differently to cope better with—and potentially prevent—future crises.
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Keywords

  • Open Access
  • Enlightened versus Malignant Leadership
  • Paranoid-Schizoid Position and COVID-19
  • Predatory Capitalism
  • Proactive crisis management and COVID-19
  • Wicked Messes and COVID-19
  • Muddled Ethics of the Coronavirus
  • Inquiry Systems as Coping Mechanisms
  • Jungian Analysis of COVID-19
  • Jungian Analysis of COVID-19
  • Meta-Heuristics for coping with messes
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mitroff Crisis Management, Berkeley, USA

    Ian I. Mitroff

  • Kilmann Diagnostics LLC, Newport Coast, USA

    Ralph H. Kilmann

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About the authors

Ian I. Mitroff is a Senior Investigator in the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at University of California Berkeley (USA). He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, where he was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the Marshall School of Business. He is the President of the consulting firm Mitroff Crisis Management, and is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline of crisis management. He founded and directed the USC Center for Crisis Management. Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range of business and societal issues, Dr. Mitroff is the author of over 38 books.

Ralph H. Kilmann is CEO and Senior Consultant at Kilmann Diagnostics (KD) in Newport Coast, California. In this capacity, he has created, as well as produced all of KD’s online courses and assessment tools on conflict management, change management, expanding consciousness, and quantum transformation. Formerly, he was George H. Love Professor of Organizations and Management at the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh (USA). Dr. Kilmann is an internationally recognized authority on systems change. He has published more than twenty books and one hundred articles on such subjects as conflict management, organizational design, problem management, change management, and quantum organizations.
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Softcover Book USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Hardcover Book USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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