In today's global world organizations rely more and more on virtual teams. In his latest book on group coaching for high-performance teams, Manfred Kets de Vries provides a clear understanding of how to coach groups of managers and make them effective teams that can bring greatly improved performance for their companies. Executives, consultants, and coaches will learn what factors drive their success or failure and how to improve their ability to adapt to changing situations- In today's global world organizations rely more and more on virtual teams. In his latest book on group coaching for high-performance teams, Manfred Kets de Vries provides a clear understanding of how to coach groups of managers and make them effective teams that can bring greatly improved performance for their companies. Preface ixAbout the Author xxiiiPart One: An Introduction to the Life of Groups and Teams 1Chapter 1 How a Group Becomes a Team 3Chapter 2 Swimming in the Relational Soup 25Chapter 3 Leadership Coaching and High Performance Teams 55Part Two: A Psychodynamic Perspective on Individuals and Groups 77Chapter 4 Understanding Individuals in Groups 79Chapter 5 The Secret Life of Groups 109Chapter 6 Into the Cloud: The Phenomenon of the Group-as-a-Whole 133Part Three: Creating Authentizotic Organizations 155Chapter 7 Toward Systemic Change in Organizations 157Chapter 8 Being an Effective Change Agent 179Chapter 9 The Zen of Group Coaching 211Chapter 10 A Holistic Design for Organizational Interventions 239Conclusion 255Appendix: Instruments 261Index 279