On Emergent Leadership
What are senior executives afraid of? Loosening the reins.
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8 min readJul 18, 2019
Three MIT researchers — Deborah Ancona, Elaine Backman, and Kate Isaacs — clearly lay out a dilemma at the heart of today’s management, or, perhaps more apt, in the heart of today’s senior managers:
Nobody has really recommended command-and-control leadership for a long time. But no fully formed…
