The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leaders - Hardcover

MacCoby, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767910230 ISBN 13: 9780767910231

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2003

Synopsis

Presenting a new paradigm of modern leadership, the author of The Gamesman rejects the negative stereotype of the self-centered egotist to argue that today's most innovative leaders are productive narcissists with strategic intelligence that they use to successfully implement their individual visions.

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About the Author:

MICHAEL MACCOBY, PH.D., is president of the Maccoby Group and director of the Project on Technology, Work, and Character, a nonprofit research center. A psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and consultant, Dr. Maccoby has advised leaders at numerous corporations, from AT&T to Volvo, as well as at institutions such as the World Bank. From 1970 to 1990, he led a research program on leadership and work at
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of the bestseller The Gamesman and author or coauthor of seven other books, most recently Why Work? Motivating the New Workforce. He lives in Washington, D.C.

From the Inside Flap:

e examination of the essential – and widely misunderstood--personality type of today's most innovative leaders.

What is it that Oprah Winfrey, Jack Welch, Martha Stewart, and Bill Gates all have in common? According to psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and consultant Michael Maccoby, it’s not just enormous success and celebrity – it’s narcissism. In The Productive Narcissist, Maccoby proposes a new paradigm of modern leadership and zeros in on one common character trait: the narcissistic personality. Challenging prevailing leadership theories, Maccoby argues that today’s most innovative leaders are not consensus-building bureaucrats; they are “productive narcissists” with the interrelated set of skills -- foresight, systems thinking, visioning, motivating, and partnering – that he terms “strategic intelligence.” Rejecting the negative stereotype of the individual who is destroyed by a pathological preoccupation with him

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0767910230
• ISBN 13: 9780767910231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298