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

The Executive's Guide to Understanding People 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.