The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do. They had a massive turnover problem.

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McGregor Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 101

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. The next morning, he called McGregor's office and asked for a meeting with him. But Sam was creative and tenacious.

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McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

I believe that Steve Jobs was among the best CEOs of this generation because he created entirely new categories six times in a decade, and built the largest company market cap ever. Yet two recent and excellent books ( Inside Apple , by Adam Lashinsky and Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson) describe a management style that was disturbingly harsh.

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McGregor Micromanagement Leadership Performance Review 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

In any case, the inaction allowed what''s described as "absolutely unsophisticated and uninteresting" malicious code to wreak havoc on the company''s reputation and customers'' lives. Crisis management Information & technology Technology' There may have been some skepticism about the system, because it was new to Target.

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