Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

HAOP 2025 · No. 14

Reimagining Leadership: The Shift from Authority to Authenticity

Danna Greenberg; Scott Taylor; Glenn Llopis

From the recording

We are trying to do too much as individuals, and we have extraordinary expectations on the individual.

Scott Taylor

About this episode

I asked Danna Greenberg and Scott Taylor, who teach organizational behavior at Babson College, to name the leadership crisis in one sentence. Scott's answer: we expect far too much of the individual. Danna traced the hero-leader myth to the 1980s. Scott told the story of a company's top patent innovator who wanted to develop people without managing them, and an HR leader who said the org chart had no box for that.

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