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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). Communication.

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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.