The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 7, 2020

He, Peter Drucker, Tom Peters and perhaps a handful of others in the 1980s jump-started the ongoing obsession with leadership that appears from all available indicators to be both very much alive—and well! You can only draw inference about it based on what you do see. To instill a growth mindset in others, you must model it yourself.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

Peter Drucker was often called the father of modern management thinking. The next year (1948) Douglas McGregor (best remembered for The Human Side of Enterprise and its description of leadership approaches Theory X and Theory Y) became Antioch’s president. Warren Bennis has been described as the father of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). They require rethinking the fundamentals of management.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Peter Drucker, one of the first management specialists to achieve guru status, was representative of this era. This was the rise of what Drucker famously dubbed “knowledge work.” Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre. But something new was starting to creep into the world of organization-as-machine.

Six Sigma 8

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 5, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 3, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

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