Executive's Guide to Understanding People How Freudian Theory Can Turn Good Executives into Better Leaders

by Zaleznik, Abraham

• ISBN13: 9780230615694
• ISBN10: 0230615694
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Executive's Guide to Understanding People, Updated Edition aims to increase and enhance the readers' psycholgical intelligence, a quality of the mind essential to leadership in organizations. Abraham Zaleznik takes managers into Freud's world of psychoanalysis and shows managers what they need to know about themselves and their employees to better motivate and lead. The book discusses a variety of things relevant to today's top leaders including Freud's origin of psychoanalysis, the unconscious, neuroses, defence mechanisms, group psychology, organizations and change.

Author Biography

Abraham Zaleznik is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Where Freud Fits	p. 1
Sigmund Freud and the Origins of Psychoanalysis	p. 7
The Unconscious	p. 23
Theory of Neuroses: Symptoms	p. 37
Theory of Neuroses: Explanations	p. 55
Psychosexual Development	p. 67
Mechanisms of Defense	p. 85
Group Psychology	p. 111
Organizations	p. 133
Leadership and Corporate Mythology	p. 147
Psychoanalysis in Changing Organizations	p. 161
The Last Word	p. 175
Notes	p. 179
Index	p. 183
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