Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

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. The consequence is a more flexible and fluid concept of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“Think of the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice presidents devote to supervising the work of others.” For almost 100 years, management has been associated with the five basic functions outlined by management theorist Henri Fayol: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The Fayol legacy lingers. One of the key principles underpinning team-based agility is that teams autonomously decide their priorities and where to allocate their own resources.

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