Maslow on Management

This book sat on the shelf next to my bed for a year or two waiting for me to have time to read it. One morning I was laying there looking at the binding and decided to at least glance through it. I read a few pages and had to put it down because my mind had to process what it was saying. It was exactly what I needed at that moment. I've been slowly making my way through it because I'm only reading small sections. They give me enough to think about.I'm a writer and part 2 of my series "The Infinite Jeff" deals with corporate America. I was telling my wife "it was almost eerie" reading "Maslow on Management" because he and I were using a lot of the same language. Right after that, I read one of the interviews in the book and the interviewee said "it was almost eerie" reading the book because it was so close to his views of a healthy organization. "Maslow on Management" reads like a non-fiction version of part 2 of "The Infinite Jeff".In another interview, the interviewee says Maslow was ahead of his time in the 1960s when he wrote the book, and even in the 1990s Maslow was probably still ahead of his time. Thirty years later, in the 2020s, it is time for enlightened management practices to become the norm.I like the phrase "conscious capitalism". Maslow never uses that phrase but it fits what he is pushing towards. Greed-based capitalism only works for a few and is harmful to so many. We can have a form of capitalism that works for everyone. We can have businesses that focus on the quality of life for their employees and communities over profits and still have profitable businesses. It is not an either/or situation. Maslow explains how companies can thrive by focusing on the employee and community.I can't recommend this book enough.Will Holcomb ~Author of the best-selling series "The Infinite Jeff: A Parable of Change"

This book is a diary of Maslow, toward the end of his career, taking a year off to spend at a Theory Y firm. His observations spark in every direction, as he applies his life work to management, education, society, government, and you name it. The book is a reissue of Eupsychian Management, with the addition of lots of commentary by people who were around but not Maslow. Maslow died before Maslow on Management was published. Two chapters were left out of the revised book, and in some instances the word Eupsychian was replaced by the word Excellent, words which really don't have the same meaning. A better translation would have been "humanistic." Nonetheless, an excellent way to get inside Maslow's mind.

Great Condition! Great Purchase! and the book was clean. Amazing Reading,

In this complex book, Maslow offers the best integrated theory of human development I have yet seen. He explains how human development is a result of synergic work and suggests how people with authority, experience and knowledge (managers) can support other people's growth,At first sight, I was baffled to find the book was just a rough sketch with disconnected notes and incomplete thoughts. It is a pity that Maslow did not live long enough to complete the book.On a second and third readings, the full picture began to emerge.The book is like a jigsaw puzzle, but without the guiding picture in the box. I took it as a challenge, enjoyed the ride and learned a lot.I can imagine some people may want something easier and softer.- Francisco Laborde (Fungus)

As psychologist I recommend especially this book! It is a bridge between an 'ethical theory of personality or men' and 'working with others in any organisation or business'. It can be used in 'Human Resource Management'. In the West a 'free human individual' is the piller of a free society and even all civilization, since Aknaton. (In the book Moses by Freud, Aknaton is mentioned as the first individual.) A free human individual creates more revenue for businesses and is much better for all others. It counters man just seen as a machine, rat, animal, subject or moneymaking instrument.

Grandioso libro! No deja de aportar en ningún momento sabiduría para todos los aspectos de la vida. Excelente aporte por Abraham Maslow.

The author of this book Maslow on Management, although no longer alive, presents a personal approach to a heavy topic, making it entirely readable and current to needs.

This should be required reading for anyone managing people. If all companies approached management in this way, no one would have a job, people would simply do what they loved and excel at it. Productivity wouldn't be measured, it would be commonplace.

The basic theme in this book is "enlightened" management. What I found particularly interesting was Maslow's commenting of contemporaries like Drucker, Likert, McGregor, Argyris, Rogers, Skinner, et al. He writes for example that Skinner stressed "again and again and again ... on predictability, on control, on lawfulness, structure, etc." and how infrequently words like "creativeness, improvising, spontaneity, expressiveness, autonomy, and the like ..." were used (page 227). Maslow was clearly ahead of his time, and he is ahead of ours. "Traditional" management is still much more common than the "enlightened" management Maslow so brilliantly and convincingly argues for. Maslow's expectation was that enlightened management would change the whole society toward improvement and therefore, could be considered revolutionary. It is a very slow revolution indeed.

This elegant and easy to read management book written over 50 years ago masks a deeper worrying message still applicable today.I can only say every manager should put this book on their required reading list, along with all Maslow's earlier work, he was clearly one of the giants of management writing and what he has to say needs to be heard today just as loudly as 50 years ago

Insightful book, engaging read.

Fantastic if all managers read this ...well it would be amazing .

Businesses run better with the right people on board. Why?