Obituary: Abraham Zaleznik, Longtime Lexington Resident and Harvard Business School Professor, Dead at 87

A pioneer in the study of workplace techniques, Zaleznik drew distinction between leaders and managers as he sought to understand internal forces driving motivating people in the workplace.

The following obituary was provided by the Harvard Business School. Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Abraham Zaleznik, a renowned authority on leadership and social psychology, died in Boston on Monday, Nov. 28, at the age of 87. At the time of his death, he was the School's Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. As a member of the Harvard Business School faculty for more than four decades, Zaleznik made important and lasting contributions as an innovative, prolific, and distinguished scholar, researcher, teacher, course developer, and author of 16 books and more than 40 articles. Eager to gain a deeper understanding of the internal forces motivating people in the workplace, during the 1960s, he combined has duties as an …

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About Town: Lighting the Way

Lemon-Lime poles and signs.

There are spiffy new glow-in-the-dark, lemon-lime-colored road signs on Worthen Road now. The signs and the poles are covered with brilliant reflective material. When automobile headlights approach, it hits the pole and sign, which seems to light up part of the street.   “It’s a new color recommended by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,” Police Capt. Joseph O’Leary said. “They’ve gotten away from orange and white cross straps.” They certainly are colorful -- and brilliant at 10 p.m.  The ones that are already installed, presumably by the Department of Public Works and Town Engineering, are standing on the sidewalks near Grace Chapel and St. Brigid’s parking lot. There are a few sections in Lexington that are pretty dark…

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