In short, the authors make it possible to answer what is otherwise a very frightening question. Robert Goffee is a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School, and Gareth Jones is the director of human resources and internal communications at the British Broadcasting Corporation. They are the founding partners of Creative Management Associates, a consulting firm in London. Narcissists are at the helm of many companies today. Michael Maccoby demonstrates that it's not so simple.
Productive narcissists have the audacity and the skill to push through necessary and massive change.
They are risk takers who know what it takes to get the job done, and they can charm the masses into following them. But such leaders can become destructive when their natural inclination to go it alone leads them to pursue grand, unrealistic schemes. Michael Maccoby is an anthropologist and a psychoanalyst. Juan Enriquez and Ray Goldberg help navigate this brave new world. Juan Enriquez, the former CEO of Mexico City's Urban Development Corporation, is a researcher at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts.