This article reviews the two extreme styles of managerial personality which can be found in business life. Not all people have stable, middle-of-the-road emotions. Manfred Kets de Vries terms these two personality styles -- ways of managing mood states -- 'hypomania' (cyclical and significant...

Manfred Kets de Vries and Katharina Balazs, from a clinical perspective, suggest that insights drawn from individual change processes can be applied to the domain of organizational transformation to facilitate and speed up the process. Based on large-scale surveys, the authors explore the...

This article by Manfred Kets de Vries looks at the life history of the late business tycoon Robert Maxwell, taking a clinical perspective. It attempts to explain the psychological forces which influenced his success and led to his downfall. The Maxwell case is used to illustrate the darker side...