Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2020

Business metaphors often return to McGregor’s theory x and theory y of manager’s perceptions of workers. When the organization feels under or over its capacity (weak IT systems, management problems, short-staffed, fallen behind in the market, disruption), I say it is like a weight lifter on steroids.

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Constraint McGregor Compliance Maturity 135

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). As a result, customers’ expectations are raised.

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Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Optimization therefore made a lot of sense.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 9

Deming Institute

AUGUST 20, 2015

This is in line with many thinkers, teachers and writers on organisations and management including Douglas McGregor, Frederick Herzberg and William Ouchi. … Properly understanding the needs of the customer should lead on to innovation. The people and parts of the system are all important and work together.

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Ouchi Herzberg Deming McGregor 28