Part 1: Managing Self -- Chapter 1: What do the five pillars of meaning mean to you? -- Chapter 2: How do you rate on your “energy barometer”? -- Chapter 3: Are you creating “eureka moments”?.-Chapter 4: Is revenge a dish best not served at all? -- Chapter 5: How to cultivate patience in...

In the previous book in this series, Manfred Kets de Vries observed the experiences of leaders on a rollercoaster ride through their professional and personal lives. Now, he follows them down the rabbit hole into the unknown, where, like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, they find a dystopian Wonderland...

Chapter 1: Covid and the seven deadly sins -- Chapter 2: Evil: reality and imagination -- Chapter 3: The psychology of white-collar criminals -- Chapter 4: The dance macabre of shame -- Chapter 5: Catching the thief of time: the perils of procrastination -- Chapter 6: The inner theatre of the...

Living in a Psychotic Age -- Are you a Sheeple? -- Feeling Wronged as a Way of Life -- The Act of Reparation -- The Populist Leadership Threat -- Anti-Demagoguery -- Do Dictatorships Deserve Such a Bad Rap? -- The Rise of the Leviathan -- The Horrors of War.

1: The dark cloud of crowds -- 2: Let’s install leaders for life -- 3: The little Drum boy or the rise and fall of a flawed leader -- 4: A strange tale of hatred -- 5: I won’t, therefore I am -- 6: Life lessons from the “Great Mother” -- 7: When lions are led by a donkey.