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The Unspoken Role of Confidence in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

An even better distinction comes in the differences between transactional and transformational leadership – a term brought to prominence by James McGregor Burns in the political sphere and then adopted in business.

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Finding the Curl in a Disruptive Wave of Change

The Center For Leadership Studies

But to my recollection, he was the first to put it in terms that made you stop in your tracks and say “Whoa …” (as you reached for a pen to underline the quote and jot a few notes in the margin): “ Leaders … figure out the right things to do …. Consider two elements of short-term advice: Keep your head (mindset).

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Unconscious and Underlying Beliefs Undermine Culture Change Efforts

The Practical Leader

As I prepare for a series of webcasts, keynotes, workshops, and internal consultant/change agent training on culture change this fall, I’ve been reviewing research and what we’re learning first-hand from our work with long-term consulting and training Clients. A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle.

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Morning Advantage: How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency

Harvard Business Review

That headline is tongue-and-cheek, of course, but the piece tackles an important issue that economists have been grappling with for a long time. McGregor argues that Obama needs to include "unconventional voices" on his team as well. Should We Tax People For Being Annoying? New York Times).

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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.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre.