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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. Last year, I facilitated a planning retreat with a back-to-the-future technology colossus. They had a massive turnover problem.

McGregor 101
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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.