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Executive Burnout

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2017

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Roundtable On Management Theory After Organization Man: Creativity, Burnout, Intuition, Heterarchy
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2017 

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34 Anxiety about authoritarian leadership became even more conspicuous following the publication of Theodor Adorno et al.’s The Authoritarian Personality in 1950. For works that supported a new vision of leadership, particularly in business, see, e.g., Argyris, Chris, Increasing Leadership Effectiveness (New York, 1976)Google Scholar; Warren G. Bennis, “Revisionist Theory of Leadership,” Harvard Business Review, Jan./Feb. 1961, 26–28, 31, 34, 36, 146, 148, 150; and David C. McClelland and David Burnham, “Power Is the Great Motivator,” Harvard Business Review, Mar./Apr. 1976, 100–110.

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37 Ibid.

38 Ibid., 26.

39 Ibid., 27.

40 Herbert J. Freudenberger and Geraldine Richelson, “How to Survive Burn Out,” Nation's Business, Dec. 1980, 55.

41 Ibid., 56.

42 Ibid.

43 Harry Levinson, “When Executives Burn Out,” Harvard Business Review, May/June 1981, 73.

44 Ibid., 77.

45 Ibid., 81.

46 Ibid.

47 Excerpted from the credits page of the Spring 1982 issue of California Management Review.

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49 Ibid.

50 Ibid., 69.

51 Ibid.

52 Ibid., 72.

53 Ibid.

54 Ibid.

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