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The Unspoken Role of Confidence in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

An even better distinction comes in the differences between transactional and transformational leadership – a term brought to prominence by James McGregor Burns in the political sphere and then adopted in business. In companies, we sometimes offer our people training in presentation skills, which help them to project confidence to others.

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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. Nearly all of his players graduated, a rare achievement when it comes to elite college sports teams. Knight's treatment of players has been termed abusive. We don't know the answer.