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Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

It is the very opposite of the supportive and nurturing Theory Y management pioneered by MIT's Douglas McGregor over a half century ago. Both were perfectionists and micromanagers. They did not stop at strategy but got into tactics at a very micro level. Knight's treatment of players has been termed abusive.