Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Douglas McGregor on motivation: “The motivation, the potential for development, the capacity for assuming responsibility, the readiness to direct behavior toward organizational goals are all present in people. Source: Leadership & Motivation * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Image by David McGregor. If you subscribe to his blog he will give you two free quote books. Those areas include personal devotions, training and equipping staff and volunteers, and building and strengthening relationships. Spending a large portion of your time and energy in those areas will allow you to be a successful church leader.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2012

Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman ignited a firestorm of interest and debate with their March Harvard Business Review blog post Are Women Better Leaders than Men? Their blog post has generated over 200 comments and perspectives on this issue so far. ” Jena McGregor published an interview with Zenger and Folkman last Friday.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. A previous post on our blog included an except from this talk: Attributing Fault to the Person Without Considering the System.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

I’ve often quoted his study findings and leadership wisdom in my books, blog, and presentations. The next year (1948) Douglas McGregor (best remembered for The Human Side of Enterprise and its description of leadership approaches Theory X and Theory Y) became Antioch’s president. in economics and social sciences.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 7, 2020

There was a time when the focus of that distinction was on determining whether a manager had Theory X or Theory Y assumptions about others (Douglas McGregor). You can only draw inference about it based on what you do see. Today, it centers around the work of Carol Dweck ( fixed or growth mindset? ).

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

An example of this is this spring’s blogs on Lean/Six Sigma and how Toyota’s culture is what really makes the difference in their use of these tools. This model was published in Growing @ the Speed of Change.

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