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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. Yet managers continue to follow Taylor’s “hard” approach — creating new structures, processes, and systems — when they need to address a management challenge.

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The History of the Situational Leadership® Framework

The Center For Leadership Studies

The Situational Leadership ® framework was the product of over 50 years of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. Studies of human motivation, professional growth and development were investigated on a separate track. Another challenge was that leadership was studied independently.