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Michael Maccoby
President, The Maccoby Group
After a BA and PhD from Harvard, Michael Maccoby trained as a psychoanalyst under Erich Fromm, with whom he carried out an ethnological study on a Mexican village. Maccoby pursued his career as advisor to a number of heads of corporations. His 1977 book The Gamesman had enormous success with companies who were trying to understand new demands on management. From 1978 to 1990, he directed the Program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 1978, he began a long mission with AT&T, which ended only in 2000. He also works with a number of other companies and unions in the US, Canada and Europe, accompanying the process of strategic planification and projects to improve social relations. He is the author of The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Perils of Visionary Leadership (2003), Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails (2007) and The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow (2007)