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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

The shift marks a significant move away from Henri Fayol's autocratic “command-and-control” type management theories and methodologies which have been in vogue since the early 1900s. This leveling of this pyramid has been reflected within the internal corporate playing fields.

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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

From Frederick Winslow Taylor and Scientific Management to Chris Argyris and Immaturity-Maturity Theory, the Situational Leadership ® process integrates the contributions of the most prominent researchers of leadership and human motivation. Oddly enough, those paths were pursued on separate tracks for the longest time.

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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

In the period that predated scientific management, the Captain of Industry style prevailed. Others like Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford channeled their wealth and power into giving back to the communities. The Human Relations style of management flourished from 1940-1964. Under it, people were managed.

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The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

In the period that predated scientific management, the Captain of Industry style prevailed. Others like Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford channeled their wealth and power into giving back to the communities. The Human Relations style of management flourished from 1940-1964. Under it, people were managed.

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Don’t Set Process Without Input from Frontline Workers

Harvard Business Review

They are the process nerds. But the world’s best organizations are calling a truce: They are learning how to turn the potentially destructive power of process and procedure to everyone’s benefit. Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. Every large institution has them.

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Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Harvard Business Review

It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management. But, for too many companies saddled with approaches to management that are outdated and ineffectual, it presents a seemingly insurmountable challenge.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. At the same time, powerful new tools are becoming increasingly available to enable real-time strategic decision making. It’s an entirely different animal.