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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In 1960, MIT management professor, Douglas McGregor’s book, The Human Side of Enterprise, outlined the opposing motivational approaches of Theory X and Theory Y. He said technical and analytical skills were the key to career advancement at their company.

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Review of “Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership” by Warren Bennis

The Practical Leader

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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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

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It has been the subject of countless books, articles, and academic investigations from the 1980s up to the present day, including a seminal work on the theory by James McGregor Burns in 1978. If you’re looking for a leadership theory with a broad base of research behind it, then Transformational Leadership Theory is probably your best bet.

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The Impact Of Leaders On Personal Transformation

Tanveer Naseer

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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In Case You Missed It: Nelson Mandela on Leadership + Info Graphics on Employee Engagement & Gen Y

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What Nelson Mandela Had to Say About Leadership By: Jena McGregor via The Washington Post Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition Monday due to a recurring lung infection for the second day — sobering news about the revered 94-year-old icon who, as Time managing editor Richard Stengel once called him …. An informal survey….

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Warren Bennis, Leadership Pioneer

Harvard Business Review

In the last piece he wrote for HBR , a personal reflection, he even claimed that the keys to his successful career were “inglorious” ones: ambition, insecurity, labor, and luck. As the decades of his career passed, Warren continued to sail unafraid into topics that were hard to study but harder to ignore.