The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

Peter Drucker was often called the father of modern management thinking. I’ve long been a reader of Warren ’s books on leadership, change, and team/organization dynamics. Warren has a long and very distinguished career. This began a close mentoring relationship until McGregor’s early and sudden death in 1964.

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McGregor Open-book Review Leadership 40

CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

Fiedler developed the Least Preferred Coworker Scale as a way to determine which managers would be the best fit for a leadership assignment. That’s a tall order, but one that many businesses, some hopelessly focused on profit over personnel, may need to find in management to help retain and motivate employees.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. In his book “ Leadership ” he talks about the transformational impact that occurs on performance and morale when a leader connects a follower’s sense of identity to the collective identity of the organization. Most leaders aren’t CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

A half-century later, its message does not sound so revisionist: that in a business environment marked by increasingly complexity and constant change, organizations require not autocrats at the top, but leaders with more humanistic, democratic styles. It was called a “Revisionist Theory of Leadership,” and that is what it delivered.

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McGregor Leadership Open-book Storytelling 8