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Finding the Curl in a Disruptive Wave of Change

The Center For Leadership Studies

There was a time when the focus of that distinction was on determining whether a manager had Theory X or Theory Y assumptions about others (Douglas McGregor). Part of that communication is tactical (who needs to do what by when). You can only draw inference about it based on what you do see. 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. They did not stop at strategy but got into tactics at a very micro level. Knight's treatment of players has been termed abusive. Both were perfectionists and micromanagers.