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Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

It is the very opposite of the supportive and nurturing Theory Y management pioneered by MIT's Douglas McGregor over a half century ago. This analysis reminds us that there are many routes to CEO success; there is no one style that is the best. Or would an effort to temper their style taken the edge off and undercut their performance?