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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Partnering not Patronizing

The Practical Leader

“To create the vision of a company, emotionally intelligent leaders need to move beyond a solo scrutiny of an organization’s vision to drawing on the collective wisdom of followers. ” Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence.

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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’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Writers such as Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett, Chester Barnard, Max Weber, and Chris Argyris imported theories from other fields (sociology and psychology) to apply to management. The mid-twentieth century was a period of remarkable growth in theories of management, and in the guru-industrial complex.