In Memoriam: Michael Maccoby | Shanker Institute

It is with unhappiness that the Albert Shanker Institute acknowledges the passing of longtime board member, Michael Maccoby. He was 89. Michael was a talented skilled on leadership, an achieved creator, and sought-soon after advisor and advisor. On the Shanker Institute Board of Directors, Michael was a leader and thoughtful contributor. We will overlook him.

In a January 2018 web site post for the Shanker Institute, “For a More Just and Prosperous America,” Mr. Maccoby closed, “We need leaders who transform worry into productive action, deliver us closer with each other, and spark hope by working to put into practice a eyesight of a much more just and affluent The us.” The Albert Shanker Institute remains grateful that Michael Maccoby devoted his daily life to learning, elevating, and becoming that form of chief.

A Harvard-educated scholar in social relations, his operate drew on social psychology, cultural anthropology and Freudian psychoanalysis, and bridged the globe of enterprise and academia.

Michael Maccoby was a globally recognized expert on leadership, who for 40 decades has suggested world-wide leaders in enterprises, governments, unions, universities and nonprofit corporations in 36 nations.

He was the president of The Maccoby Team in Washington, D.C. He had a BA and PhD from Harvard University, in which he directed the Program on Technologies, Community Coverage and Human Enhancement at the Kennedy University from 1970-90.

He graduated from The Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis where by he examined underneath Erich Fromm and with him wrote Social Character in Mexican Village. He is creator of The Gamesman, The Leader, Why Perform?, Narcissistic Leaders, The Leaders We Need, guide author of Reworking Wellbeing Treatment Leadership, and creator of Strategic Intelligence.

In appreciation of his perform in Sweden, he was built Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star. He was a fellow of the American Psychological and Anthropological Associations and the Nationwide Academy of General public Administration. He was been a viewing professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Sciences Po in Paris. He taught leadership at Oxford University’s Saïd Faculty of Business enterprise the place he was an affiliate fellow. The Washington School of Psychiatry introduced him a lifetime achievement award. He was also a strategic management advisor to Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos , homes universities and health care in nine nations around the world in Latin The united states and the Caribbean.

For much more details on Michael Maccoby’s amazing daily life and contributions, be sure to read through this Washington Submit obituary.