Word: zaleznik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Social Psychologist Abraham Zaleznik, 52, who wrote a working paper on the development of leadership, noted that in many leaders there is a "cleavage between himself and the outer world." This creates in him "a demand that he or she accomplish something different or special." But Zaleznik conceded that the result could be destructiveness as well as great achievement...
...management." U.S. business often goes to extraordinary lengths to shield its failures. Next to early retirement with an extra-generous pension, the most common tactic is to move the failure to an impressive-sounding job that has no content. In fact, says Harvard Business Professor Abraham Zaleznik, he is "vice president of nothing." The man with a lofty title, a high salary and little to do may seem to be in an enviable position, but few enjoy it. "I have talked to many of them," says David Gleicher, a research executive at Arthur D. Little. "They are dying and they...
...true spur to efficiency is not fear?either of unemployment or a customer's wrath; it is rather a positive ideal. And that ideal is failing in the affluent urban society of the present time. "People are no longer turned on by the Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at the Harvard Business School. To some, the Protestant Ethic?hard work is a virtue for its own sake?appears to have been replaced by an almost Mediterranean spirit, a spreading belief that men should work no more than they must to enjoy the good life and worldly pleasures. "There...