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HBR DAILY LEADER: Everyday Wisdom for Exceptional Leadership
Publisher: HBS Publishing/Penguin Random House
Pages: 376
Price: ₹899
There is a mystique about leadership. Management pedagogy is awash with theories of how leaders develop. The Great Man theory that history is made by great men or heroes has been the favourite haunt of historians to explain how great men shaped the trajectory of history. These theories trace their inspiration to Thomas Carlyle, who delivered a series of lectures on heroism in 1840.
The opposite of the Great Man theory is the behavioural theory of leadership. According to this theory,
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