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Corporate Ideal: The ‘Authentizotic’ Organization

Where fair processes meet commitment

Manfred Kets de Vries
Mon, 01/08/2018 - 12:01
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The CEO of Wickrott Corp. was known as a suspicious control freak. Symptomatic of his leadership style were the numerous “internal consultants” hired to keep him informed of the goings-on in the organization. Staff described their work environment as a cutthroat, Darwinian “soup.” Information was power; secrecy was the norm; transparency and teamwork were conspicuous by their absence.

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To add to the company’s paranoid culture, the CEO demanded presigned resignation letters from all of his senior executives so that he could fire them on the spot if he felt that they had transgressed. At meetings, he frequently subjected them to abusive, even profane tirades. During these humiliating sessions, he made it quite clear that the firm owed every bit of its success to him alone.

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