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- Hey there. Welcome back. Alex Lyon here, and today we are going to be looking at the Michigan leadership studies. We're just doing an overview. This is a introduction for beginners. We're working out of Johnson and Hackman's book on "Leadership: A Communication Perspective". I will put links to that in the description below. So let's get into it. So years ago, decades ago, the University of Michigan researchers looked at high and low performing teams and found that leaders had one of two what they thought were opposing leadership styles. They either had a production-oriented or a people-oriented leadership style, or they could have been somewhere in the middle where they were a little bit of both but on the low end of both. And at first, researchers thought that this was a continuum. So it was essentially a one dimensional view of leadership. You could either be all the way over on the production-oriented side, somewhere in the middle, or you could have been all the way over on the p