Modern leadership has customarily been associated with command-and-control leadership as depicted in Adam Smith’s seminal book The Wealth of Nations. In this model the role of the leader or manager is to “command” often unwilling workers to pursue a goal while “controlling” their actions to attain it. Upon Smith’s ideas Frederick Taylor built Theory X, famously asserting; “The worker must be trimmed to fit the job.”
Millennial and Gen. Z leadership, not surprisingly, react against this emphasis on a leadership expert and instead embrace a consensus-building and collaborative approach.
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