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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

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. This prospect offers opportunities for more peer-based interaction and a better flow and exchange of information and ideas.

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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

Operating on that assumption, here are reasons we believe the Situational Leadership ® content has not only withstood the test of time, but it is also actually gaining traction with organizations serious about building leaders and driving behavior change. Consistency of the learning experience, regardless of delivery modality, is another.

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Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Harvard Business Review

Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Instead of focusing on real and practical problems of relevance to the business world today, “performance” has become the dependent variable in most management research and the root of delusions (to use Phil Rosenzweig’s term ) that business scholars serve up to managers. We must educate a new generation of renaissance leaders.

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Don’t Set Process Without Input from Frontline Workers

Harvard Business Review

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. The Future of Operations. Michael Power of the London School of Economics describes the resulting explosion of bureaucracy as “the risk management of everything.” Both of these stories hold lessons for operations now and in the future.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

The question is: How will management advance to influence the path and force of these revolutions? But increasingly this industrial-age management mindset is becoming an impediment to our fully realizing the promise of the digital revolution’s technologies. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.