More humane productivity, more economic productivity

• "The sociologist and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm always opted for more humane productivity, because it is the more reliable basis for economic productivity."
• Read Dr Funk's introduction paper (in English and Italian) about humane leadership, both in English and Italian: click here!

Fromm, Funk and leadership

• Leadership and team building are based on philosophical, sociological and psychological elements.
• So have a look at the presentation by Peter Jankovsky, PhD:  click here!

Responsible leadership: practice towards coherence between thought and action 

•  Responsible leadership implies constant attention and effort. 
• So have a look at the presentation (in English and Italian) by Prof. Dr. Ivan Ureta:  click here!

Fromm and Funk: questions, comments and inputs

• 4 Basic insights of Fromm and the art of living.
• So have a look at the presentation (in English and German) by Karen Heidl, MA:  click here!

Customer orientation and Fromm’s productive orientation

• A brief addendum to the question about  the role of Fromm'sproductive orientation in the concrete context of economy.
• So have a look at the presentation by Prof. Matthias Mölleney (Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich, HWZ):  click here!

La conduzione aziendale ai tempi della sostenibilità

• MANAGEMENT, Corriere del Ticino: I pensieri del sociologo tedesco Erich Fromm riproposti dal suo allievo Rainer Funk ad Ascona in occasione di un seminario a Casa Epper.
• Proprio gli strumenti digitali rischiano di sconnettere il leader dalla realtà.
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"Io in Ticino con il mio maestro Fromm"

• Intervista di Mauro Spignesi, caporedattore de La Domenica, con il dottor Rainer Funk.
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Rimanere autentici con Fromm e Funk 

• Il resoconto su La Regione: L'ottantenne psicoanalista tedesco Funk, ‘erede’ del pensiero del noto psicologo e accademico, è stato ospite dell’Agorà Personal Talk.
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Dr. Rainer Funk (*1943), German theologian, social psychologist and psychoanalyst, was a frequent guest of the Fromm couple in Muralto (Ticino). Soon, these intellectual meetings turned into a close working relationship: Funk became Erich Fromm's last assistant, with whom he conducted important research projects. In fact, after meeting Fromm, Funk trained as a psychoanalyst, working mainly as a psychotherapist.

Having become his closest collaborator, Fromm made him heir in his will to his work. After his master's death, Rainer Funk founded the Erich Fromm Institute in Tübingen (Germany), which, in addition to housing the great German psychoanalyst's scientific heritage and library, still promotes numerous research activities in the field of psychology and social sciences.

 The Erich Fromm Institute Tuebingen (EFIT) is a one of kind Fromm research center. It houses Erich Fromm’s reference library as well as his literary estate (with original typescripts, handwritten drafts and other documents). Here you find a comprehensive collection of the literature about Erich Fromm and publications and documents of the International Erich Fromm Society. Also, the papers from 1930’s and 1940’s which Fromm deposited at the New York Public Library are available in the Tuebingen Erich Fromm Institute as replications.