The Exceptional Executive A Psychological Conception Harry Levinson by Harry Levinson 9780674424715, 9780674424708, 0674424719, 0674424700 instant download after payment.

Integrating a large body of data about motivation, work, human relations, and organizations in a psychoanalytic framework, Harry Levinson puts forward in one coherent book new concepts of leadership and of the social meaning of the business organization. The core of the author’s thinking is that organizations must have as their primary aim their own regeneration. In order to build a capacity for survival into his business, the executive must make it a problem-solving institution. Levinson challenges the commonly held assumption that self-fulfillment is the dominant motive of individuals, and shows that managerial efforts to motivate people on that basis will be only partially successful at best. It is, he insists, the ego ideal the image a person has of himself at his future best—that is the most powerful motivating force.