1. Agents of Change “The Leaders We Need - And What Makes Us Follow” provides many ex-
Leadership Never Ends
amples of leaders and their organizations from this rich body of work. It is his
most comprehensive book, giving readers the fruits of his productive lifetime in
what might be called a grand integrated theory.
The leaders who engage us believe that the hardest part of change is At the national level, we need leaders who can respond to a world aflame
integrating the human element of values, motivation, and creativity with with fundamentalist ideologies, the global ecological crisis, and an increasing
percentage of the world facing inadequate food, water, shelter, health. At the
strategy and organization. We help them succeed in their leadership roles.
organizational level, we need leaders who can organize and inspire knowledge
workers in healthcare organizations, schools, and innovative global compa-
nies. Traditional bureaucratic managers who built great corporations and gov-
ernment agencies of the industrial era lack the personality and understanding
needed to engage a new social character, raised in dual career families rather
B ased on more than 35 years of
than the paternalistic families of the past.
applied research and consulting
The new interactive social character is composed of free agents motivated
with leaders in business, government,
by continual learning, teamwork, transparency, participation and above all,
unions, universities and non-profit
meaningful purpose. If led as collaborators they are a source of ideas, energy,
organizations in the United States,
and solutions. But they are turned off by rules and carrot and stick-based
Canada, Western Europe, North
managers. Maccoby describes the changing attitudes of the interactives who
Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
don’t idealize father figures; and the various kinds of intelligence needed to
Founded in 1977, The Mac-
lead today.
coby Group works with companies,
- Richard Margolies, Vice President of the Maccoby Group
government, universities, and unions
to develop leaders for the common
good and the organizations that can
implement their visions. From its
beginning to 1990, it was affiliated
with Harvard’s Kennedy School.
TMG President, Dr. Michael Mac-
coby, is the author (and co-author) of
Nora Maccoby-Hathaway is the Vice President of The Maccoby Group,
twelve books on leadership and orga-
President of Walker Enterprises, The Stella Group, and co-creator of The
nization; the most recent being The
Eaglefeathers Project. She has appeared on C-Span, led a workshop at the
Leaders We Need And What Makes
2006 Tallberg Forum (Getting Green Technology to Market in Time) bringing
Us Follow (Harvard Business School
together leaders in the investment world with green technology experts. She
Press, 2007). Members of the group
also organized and co-hosted the Washington D.C. Green Salon and Blue
have developed projects to improve
Salon symposiums devoted to the world’s energy and water problems and
leadership and organization at AT&T,
solutions, the most recent of which was held at the Swedish Embassy’s new
Volvo, the World Bank, the MITRE
House of Sweden.
Co, NIH, Pacific Northwest Labo-
In 2003, Nora began to focus primarily on energy related issues and
ratories, the State and Commerce
co-founded Nature’s Partners, a bipartisan non-profit foundation devoted to en-
Departments and other organizations.
ergy literacy/education. She has consulted with a broad range of energy users,
The Maccoby Group organizes
including members of Congress, the Department of Defense, the International
two-day leadership workshops -
Fund for China’s Environment, California and Maryland state governments,
working to facilitate visionary leader-
the government of Grenada, private industry and cutting edge new technology
ship. Vice president Dr. Richard
entities.
Margolies has developed and led
Since 2005, Nora has been working with the Department of Defense to
courses to improve leadership in the
enact a new DoD energy directive highlighting conservation, energy efficiency,
US Army Corps of Engineers. Vice
and the use of renewable energy technology, as well as working with members
president Nora Maccoby also works
of Congress to advise on energy smart policy. She and her husband (Army
extensively with the US Department
Major) Todd Hathaway, are critical players in the Energy Consensus, an inter-
of Defense, as well as with leaders in
departmental/interdisciplinary network of energy experts, thinkers, scientists,
business, science, and many different
engineers, and leaders in the energy field, tasked with developing “energy
parts of government to promote the
smart” policies/strategies. Nora’s advising of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
development and implementation of
in December 2005 on energy strategy helped establish a centralized DoD
clean energy technologies.
initiative which led to the creation of The Energy Conversation.
The Maccoby Group’s much cited
Nora graduated from the Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. She
study of leadership in the best health
received her BA in Theater and Government from Oberlin College, and her
care organizations in America was
MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
sponsored by the Robert Wood John-
Nora directed “Dropping the Bomb on My Street” (1994), winner of the
son Foundation. Dr. Maccoby has
Youth Jury: Leopard of Tomorrow Award at the Locarno Film Festival. She
served as facilitator of the National
went on to co-write “Bongwater” (Jack Black, Luke Wilson, Andy Dick, Brittany
Coalition on Health Care.
Murphy) (1998) and “Buffalo Soldiers” (Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott
Glenn, Anna Paquin) (2003). “Buffalo Soldiers” was nominated for six London
www.Maccoby.com Independent Spirit Awards and was the winner of the 2003 London Evening
Michael Maccoby, PhD (photography © 2003 - Carol T. Powers, CTPowers@aol.com)
Tel +1.202.895.8922 Standard Award for Best Screenplay.
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