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Finding the Curl in a Disruptive Wave of Change

The Center For Leadership Studies

I don’t know whether he ever knew it or not, but Warren Bennis was the kind of author that elicited audible reactions from the people (like me) that read what he had to say about leadership. Case in point: Bennis was by no means the first scholar to draw a distinction between leadership and management. Doing Things Right.

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Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

It is the very opposite of the supportive and nurturing Theory Y management pioneered by MIT's Douglas McGregor over a half century ago. Knight's treatment of players has been termed abusive. Each was obsessive about their jobs and put in astonishingly long hours. Both were perfectionists and micromanagers.