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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. Both were perfectionists and micromanagers. Or would an effort to temper their style taken the edge off and undercut their performance? Knight's treatment of players has been termed abusive.