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Control and Influence: Why They Matter More Than Ever

April, 2025

In 1983, I wrote a doctoral dissertation comparing Organizational Control Graph Theory with individual control data. This theory, based on Arnold Tannenbaum's groundbreaking research from the 1960s, examined how control and influence are distribute...

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Change Your Leaders To Change Your Culture

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