William Czander
William Czander has taught in MBA programs for over 35 years and is a member of a unique group of scholars and practitioners called organizational psychoanalysts. He has consulted to organizations and treated executives since 1980. In 2002 he left full-time teaching to join Home Depot and spent almost 4 years observing a CEO destroy a once proud corporate culture. He witnessed firsthand how and why contemporary corporate leaders destroy commitment, how the life of becoming and then being an...See more
William Czander has taught in MBA programs for over 35 years and is a member of a unique group of scholars and practitioners called organizational psychoanalysts. He has consulted to organizations and treated executives since 1980. In 2002 he left full-time teaching to join Home Depot and spent almost 4 years observing a CEO destroy a once proud corporate culture. He witnessed firsthand how and why contemporary corporate leaders destroy commitment, how the life of becoming and then being an executive places an enormous psychological burden and often leads to decision making that to an outsider appears irrational but inside the executive constellation is normal and right. His years in business schools have given him insight into how young managers are trained and educated, and how faculty collude in creating the "bottom line" executive, where responsibility and empathy is replaced with entitlement and greed. He gives numerous examples of how executives are driven to destroy a company while enriching themselves. He maintains that the enactment of laws, blaming, and yelling will not stop this executive behavior. At the rate they are going, these executives will destroy corporate America as we know it unless we engage in a radical transformation in how we select, govern, educate, and train our corporate leaders. He is semi-retired and serves on the faculty at several institutions, occasionally teaches and has a private practice in Irvington, N.Y. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from CCNY, holds a Ph.D. from NYU and completed two Postdoc's; at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale and the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in Psychoanalysis. This is his third book. He has also written many articles on work, leadership and mental health. See less
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