Dr. Michael Maccoby
Michael Maccoby is an anthropologist and psychoanalyst, globally recognized as an expert on leadership. He is president of The Maccoby Group in Washington, DC and director of the Project on Technology, Work and Character, a not for profit research organization.
For over 35 years, Dr. Maccoby has been consultant and coach to leaders in corporations, unions, universities, the World Bank, and the State and Commerce Departments of the U.S. Government. He has worked in 24 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and North Africa.
Dr. Maccoby became known internationally both for his books on leadership and his pioneering projects to change work. His book The Gamesman (1977), was the first bestseller to describe the new entrepreneurs and managers in high-tech industry. The Leader (1981) followed, presenting as an ideal, managers who developed both their organizations and people for a changing world. Why Work? Motivating the New Work Force (second edition, 1995), presents a new theory of motivation to fit the changing values of knowledge workers. It has been translated into 10 languages. Maccoby is co-author of Agents of Change: Crossing the Post Industrial Divide (2003) which describes his leadership of AT&T’s Workplace of the Future in the 1990s. His 2007 book, The Leaders We Need, And What Makes Us Follow, examines leadership from the point of followers as well as leaders.
His article “Narcissistic Leaders: the Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons”, January, 2000 won a McKinsey Award, which recognizes the two best Harvard Business Review articles published each year. It was the basis for the book, The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership, published in 2003. In 2007, Harvard Business School Press published the paperback, re-titled Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails.
Dr. Maccoby was facilitator of the National Coalition on Health Care in developing specifications for a comprehensive U.S. health care policy. He has been a consultant on the management of change at health care centers, and received grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the study “Leadership for Health Care in the Age of Learning” which was published by the Association of Academic Health Centers in 2001.
Dr. Maccoby worked as a consultant, researcher and lecturer in Sweden from 1973-2005. His book Sweden At the Edge, Lessons for American and Swedish Managers (1991) described some of his work. In 2007, King Carl XVI Gustaf named him a Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star.
Dr. Maccoby has taught at Harvard, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of California, l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Said Business School, Oxford, the Brookings Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry. From 1978-90, he was director of the Program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development at the J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He received a B.A. in Social Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Social Relations, combining psychology and anthropology, from Harvard. He also studied philosophy at New College, Oxford, and psychoanalysis with Erich Fromm. With Fromm he wrote Social Character in a Mexican Village (1970, reissued in 1996). He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology and the National Academy of Public Administration. He is a member of the boards of The Washington School of Psychiatry, The Albert Shanker Institute, and Our Little Brothers and Sisters, an orphanage in Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, ElSalvador, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia and Peru. He writes “The Human Side” for Research Technology Management.
February, 2008
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