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The Unspoken Role of Confidence in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Hewitt: Leadership is one of the most regularly used words in the world of business, and arguably one of the most important. Leadership is “the action of leading a group of people or an organisation”, and there are two important things to note: Firstly, leadership does not necessarily require an official title.

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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

Over the next few decades, leading companies and human performance researchers found that empowering workers to use their heads, hearts, and hands significantly boosted morale and productivity. The company was growing so rapidly they were having big problems finding people to staff their production facilities.

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EBM: X&Y

LDRLB

Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human motivation created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s. McGregor felt that companies followed either one or the other approach. For McGregor, Theory X and Y are not different sides of the same coin.

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0712 | How to Build a High Performing Culture

LDRLB

Need Doshi and Lindsay McGregor are partners in life, work, and writing. In This episode, You’ll Learn: Why most company cultures suck. The are the founders of the consulting firm Vega Factor and authors of Primed to Perform. In this interview, we dive deep into culture, systems, and motivation. Why TOMO is the antidote for FOMO.

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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2016

Curious Cat

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2016 (based on page views). ” – Douglas McGregor. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. – Taiichi Ohno. – Peter Block. .

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Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

I believe that Steve Jobs was among the best CEOs of this generation because he created entirely new categories six times in a decade, and built the largest company market cap ever. It is the very opposite of the supportive and nurturing Theory Y management pioneered by MIT's Douglas McGregor over a half century ago.

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The Impact Of Leaders On Personal Transformation

Tanveer Naseer

A lot has been written about Transformational Leadership. The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. Leadership practitioners spend a lot of time theorizing about transformational change writ large. The leader has to be simultaneously caring and tough.

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