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128: How to Shape Culture to Drive Performance | with Lindsay McGregor

Engaging Leader

To find a systematic, data-driven approach to shape culture, former McKinsey consultant Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi surveyed over 20,000 workers around the world, analyzed 50 major companies, and conducted scores of experiments before arriving at one major conclusion: Why people work determines how well they work.

McGregor 100
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The Unspoken Role of Confidence in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

An even better distinction comes in the differences between transactional and transformational leadership – a term brought to prominence by James McGregor Burns in the political sphere and then adopted in business. In companies, we sometimes offer our people training in presentation skills, which help them to project confidence to others.

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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

Over the next few decades, leading companies and human performance researchers found that empowering workers to use their heads, hearts, and hands significantly boosted morale and productivity. The company was growing so rapidly they were having big problems finding people to staff their production facilities.

McGregor 101
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0712 | How to Build a High Performing Culture

LDRLB

Need Doshi and Lindsay McGregor are partners in life, work, and writing. In This episode, You’ll Learn: Why most company cultures suck. The are the founders of the consulting firm Vega Factor and authors of Primed to Perform. In this interview, we dive deep into culture, systems, and motivation. Why TOMO is the antidote for FOMO.

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How to achieve a flow state of mind

Chartered Management Institute

Studies have also highlighted the desirable aspects of the flow state for companies as a means for entire organisations to maximise the opportunities for people to flourish and make meaningful contributions. Management attention is one of an organisation’s most precious resources.

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EBM: X&Y

LDRLB

Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human motivation created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s. McGregor felt that companies followed either one or the other approach. For McGregor, Theory X and Y are not different sides of the same coin.

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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2016

Curious Cat

” – Douglas McGregor. Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization. . – Taiichi Ohno. The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people?” – Taiichi Ohno.

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