books by Michael Maccoby     books:       Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails2 reviews Michael Maccoby Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Why some narcissistic leaders are productive...and others are not As Michael Maccoby explains in his Preface, "To understand differences among narcissists and even predict which visionaries will succeed and which are likely to fail, this book dissects narcissistic personalities and contrasts narcissists with the other psychoanalytic personalities: the careful obsessives, caring erotics, and adaptive marketing types." Maccoby concludes, "I'm proposing that ...             The Gamesman: The New Corporate Leaders2 reviews Michael maccoby Simon & Schuster, 1977 A Must Read for Anyone in Organizations.... Even though the book is from the mid 70's, Maccoby does us all a great service by publishing the results of his extensive study into corporate life. Based on his surveys and interviews, he develops four organizational personalities: The Craftsman, The Organizational Man, The Jungle Fighter, and The Gamesman - and states that no one is purely of one type, but rather, containing a mixture, ...             Becoming a Leader We Need: Leveraging Personality Intelligence to Lead in the Knowledge Economy Michael Maccoby Harvard Business School Press, 2007 In order to be an effective leader in an interactive world, you need to develop your Personality Intelligence--the ability to both recognize and experience personality patterns and emotions, and to understand organizations as collaborative social systems. You can do this in a number of ways, including developing the heart, clearing the mind and practicing deep listening. Also, you have to remember that to make people willing collaborators, you ...             A Prophetic Analyst: Erich Fromm's Contributions to Psychoanalysis1 review Mauricio Cortina, Erich Fromm, ... Jason Aronson, 1996 An important work to further our understanding of Fromm Mauricio Cortina and Michael Maccoby give us a rare gift in A PROPHETIC ANALYST: ERICH FROMM'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO PSYCHOANALYSIS, by editing the work of eighteen contributors presented at the Erich Fromm International Symposium held in Washington, D.C. in March 1994. Erich Fromm was read by millions and was highly influencial in the 1940s and 50s, but fell into neglect in his later years, in spite ...             Harvard Business Review on What Makes a Leader2 reviews Daniel Goleman, Michael Maccoby, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2001 Given the Quality, an Exceptional Value This is one in a series of volumes of articles which previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. They offer direct and relatively inexpensive access to cutting-edge thinking on a major business subject. This volume provides eight essays, each preceded by an "Executive Summary." The first selection "What Makes a Leader?") was written by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, ...             Agents of Change: Crossing the Post-Industrial Divide Rafael Ramirez, Pierre-Eric Tixier, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 This book focuses on the transition faced by business organizations and their stakeholders as they move from protected markets to open competition, and it explores how these changes can be facilitated by outside interveners/agents. The four authors-two from Europe and two from the United States-have worked separately as consultants with leaders of many companies and unions facing these challenges including AT & T, Lucent, Electricite de France ...             The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow6 reviews Michael Maccoby Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Significant and practical We need Michael Maccoby's insights about leaders and our world today to follow or become The Leaders We Need. People don't want to be managed by autocratic father figures, though they will follow and better yet, collaborate with, the right kind of leader. This book is trenchant and practical. Disclaimer: Michael Maccoby and I have worked together for 35 years. For some this might imply a ...             The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership9 reviews Michael Maccoby Broadway, 2003 Insightful, thought-provoking, intriguing In these confusing and uncertain times, the cry goes out for more visionary leaders. We need men and women who can lead us out of the darkness of despair and short-term Wall Street thinking into the clear air of vision, goals, and high achievement. Enter the narcissistic leader. Narcissists admire themselves, they believe in themselves. They have complete confidence in themselves, even though ...             Ego Makes the Leader, 2nd Edition (HBR Article Collection) Michael Maccoby, Jim Collins, ... Harvard Business Review, 2003 What makes a leader great? Consider ego size. The authors featured in this collection investigate the impact of ego on leadership from several angles: 1) Narcissistic: Leaders with oversize egos can be very good for business--especially during times of transition. Gifted strategists and courageous risk-takers, they drive their companies to greatness. But they also have a dark side that can obliterate their careers--and their companies. 2) Humble ...             From Bureaucratic Followers to Interactive Collaborators: Understanding Two Types of Relationships Between ... Michael Maccoby Harvard Business School Press, 2007 There are two types of followers: bureaucratic and interactive. A key element of the bureaucratic social character is the hardworking obsessive personality that has internalized a dominant father figure from early childhood. For people with an interactive social character, the significant person from the past they project onto a leader is often not a parent but a sibling or close friend. To create collaboration, as a leader you'll have to ...              search for books becoming, between, bureaucratic, business, collaborators, collection, contributions, corporate, crossing, followers, gamesman, industrial, intelligence, interactive, knowledge, leaders, leadership, leveraging, narcissist, narcissistic, personality, post-industrial, productive, promise, prophetic, psychoanalysis, relationships, succeeds, understanding, visionary books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Boosting the Adolescent Underachiever: How Busy Parents Can Unlock their ... leave a comment home  impressum - about us