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Finding the Curl in a Disruptive Wave of Change

The Center For Leadership Studies

I don’t know whether he ever knew it or not, but Warren Bennis was the kind of author that elicited audible reactions from the people (like me) that read what he had to say about leadership. Case in point: Bennis was by no means the first scholar to draw a distinction between leadership and management. Doing Things Right.

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Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Yet two recent and excellent books ( Inside Apple , by Adam Lashinsky and Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson) describe a management style that was disturbingly harsh. Before answering that question, it is useful to elaborate the two management styles. They did not stop at strategy but got into tactics at a very micro level.