Learning and Doing: Working with Fromm and Applying What I Learned

A globally recognized expert on leadership who for forty years has advised global leaders in businesses, governments, unions, universities, and nonprofits in thirty-six countries. He directed the Harvard University Program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development from 1970 to 1990. Maccoby graduated from the Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis and practiced as a training analyst in Mexico, where he co-authored Social Character in a Mexican Village with Erich Fromm. He has taught at the Washington School of Psychiatry, which in 2016 honored him with a lifetime achievement award. He is author of The Gamesman, The Leader, Sweden at the Edge, Why Work?, Narcissistic Leaders, The Leaders We Need, and Strategic Intelligence and lead author of Transforming Health Care Leadership. He is a fellow of the American Psychological and Anthropological Associations and the National Academy of Public Administration. He is the leadership advisor to Our Little Brothers and Sisters, with homes, schools, and medical facilities in nine Latin American and Caribbean countries.