After some encouragement from the good Dr. Daley, I am back on a Maslow kick... If you're wanting to get on the bandwagon too, then the book immediately recommended is Eupsychian Management (fully reprinted later along with commentary in Maslow on Management, excerpts reprinted along with other useful material in The Maslow Business Reader).
I've read "EM" three times, am at my fourth reading in as many years, and get something new and useful every time. Eupsychian Management is one of the "Principal Sources" of MBM - see the link on the side of the blog.
Usefulness to MBM applications abound... Just one immediate example: his letter to John D. Rockefeller III on p. 8 of the Reader comes in handy for initiating a very practical discussion about vision development, organizational health, and / or guiding principles.
I only just started the Maslow biography The Right to be Human, but have read Motivation and Personality and Toward a Psychology of Being - both excellent but not as immediately applicapble to work experience as the above mentioned books.
If you're on the kick too, please feel welcome to add to the comment section. If you are considering starting, I will leave you a Maslow quote to make you think through if this is worth your time:
"What is not worth doing, is not worth doing well." - A. Maslow, Maslow on Management
Nice to see this
Posted by: Orthomentor | 19 March 2009 at 02:01 PM