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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

We’re delighted to announce the shortlists in the four categories of the CMI Partner Awards , which celebrate the achievements of CMI training providers and learners: Outstanding HE Training Provider of the Year : University of Exeter, University of Strathclyde, Gloucestershire Business School, Arden University. Why not share it.

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Finding the Curl in a Disruptive Wave of Change

The Center For Leadership Studies

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). If it weren’t for change, people would care a whole lot less about leaders figuring out the right things to do … or managers figuring out how to do those things right.

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Review of “Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership” by Warren Bennis

The Practical Leader

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. This began a close mentoring relationship until McGregor’s early and sudden death in 1964. in economics and social sciences.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business Review

And how do you then help him understand the importance of picking up the pace — and support him in doing so? A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

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.