The Leader: A New Face for American Management

"The Leader," an entirely new breed of manager, has seized the reins of power, looking beyond money and status alone toward inspiring a team that fulfills company and personal expectations.

The Leader examines six real managers from America and Europe in action--a factory foreman, a union leader, a plant manager, a chief executive, a ranking civil servant, and a congressman. It reveals their attitudes about people, power, and organizational structure, resulting in a new philosophy that ultimately leads to increased satisfaction, creating a more human, efficient, and productive workplace.

Dealing with changing technology . . . pursuing people-oriented goals . . . setting the pace for the exciting decade ahead.

Michael Maccoby 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, 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 Leader, the bestseller The Gamesman, and author or co-author of several other books, including Why Work? Motivating the New Workforce. He lives in Washington, DC.