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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. What were some of the top leadership articles you read this week? So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. David Grossman. __.

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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In 1960, MIT management professor, Douglas McGregor’s book, The Human Side of Enterprise, outlined the opposing motivational approaches of Theory X and Theory Y. The division leader who hired me woke up a few months prior and realized their management-leadership balance was way out of whack.

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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. With the rise of the industrial revolution, that changed. The mid-twentieth century was a period of remarkable growth in theories of management, and in the guru-industrial complex.