Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. It can become a real drag on your career unless you deal with it. Ten years after receiving the hard-to-hear feedback, the middle manager considers it the single most important conversation he had in his entire career.

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McGregor Middle Management Hammer Influence 276

The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

Warren has a long and very distinguished career. The next year (1948) Douglas McGregor (best remembered for The Human Side of Enterprise and its description of leadership approaches Theory X and Theory Y) became Antioch’s president. This began a close mentoring relationship until McGregor’s early and sudden death in 1964.

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McGregor Open-book Review Leadership 40

CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

It isn’t hard to see how this could apply in the workplace, and that’s just what organizational scholars did, showing that leaders develop different relationships with each subordinate as each party defines their respective roles. The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership was developed in the mid-’70s by Martin G. Evans and Robert J.

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Leadership Contingency Theory Leadership Styles Proposal 131