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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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In Case You Missed It: Nelson Mandela on Leadership + Info Graphics on Employee Engagement & Gen Y

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. So whether you’re a new leader or an industry veteran there’ll be something here for you. Employee Engagement is Everyone’s Job By: Guest Blogger Kevin Kruse via Tanveer Naseer Blog “Hey, why is it always up to the manager to increase engagement?”

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