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Few people better personify the notion of a sense of purpose and meaning than the Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1905–1997). Dr Frankl was of Jewish origin, but when the persecutions started under Nazi influence, followed by World War II, he decided to stay in Austria to support his patients. In 1942 he was arrested and deported to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt with his wife Tilly Grosser and both his parents. As a psychiatrist, Viktor Frankl was interested in what made some people want to live and survive at any cost, and what drove those who had suicidal tendencies (before the war he had treated thousands of women in the “suicide pavilion” of the General Hospital in Vienna).
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J. Kouzes and B. Posner (2007) The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edn (Jossey-Bass).
S. Covey (1989) The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful lessons in personal change, 1st edn (Free Press).
Dr Paul McLean is an American physician. His evolutionary theory of the “triune brain” was the first to treat the brain as being split into three main components: The R-complex (also called reptilian), the limbic and the neo-cortex. On emotional hijack, see D. Goleman (1997) Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ (Bantam).
M. J. Apter (2007) Reversal Theory: The Dynamics of Motivation, Emotion and Personality, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oneworld Publications). Michael Apter is the founder of Apter International (http://www.apterinternational.com/). On reversal theory, see the Wikipedia article of 30 November 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversal_Theory.
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Marlier, D., Parker, C., Mobilizing Teams International. (2009). Unleashing Potential Through the Emotional Agenda. In: Engaging Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230233577_4
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