The Ghost in the Boardroom

Didier Anzieu, a psychoanalyst and management consultant, was wrestling with a knotty question: What recommendations should he give to Bernard Lambert, president of the Dunor Corp.? Lambert had recently asked Anzieu to visit the company and advise him about two problems: how to stop a war going on in the executive committee, and how to let go of a family executive who had been promised a permanent position in the company.

Dunor Corp.* is a medium-sized firm in the light metal industry, with its head office and factory in Douai, France. It was started 45 years ago by Albert Peltier, a self-made man and workaholic who was hard on himself and others. His temper was notorious. He ran the company with an iron hand and was both loved and hated by his employees.

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