ABSTRACT
The Managerial Grid, a 1964 book by Robert R. Blake and Jane S. Mouton that has become a managerial classic, describes leadership styles in terms of their orientation toward production and toward people. Blake and Anne Adams McCanse updated the concept in 1991, renaming it the Leadership Grid® in their book Leadership Dilemmas—Grid® Solutions, but its central elements remain the same. The Grid defines a manager's approach along the two axes of concern for people and concern for production. The level of concern for each factor is rated on a scale from one to nine.
