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...

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...