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Leading Thoughts for May 11, 2023

Leading Blog

Source: The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower II. 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.

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The Unspoken Role of Confidence in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Hewitt: Leadership is one of the most regularly used words in the world of business, and arguably one of the most important. Leadership is “the action of leading a group of people or an organisation”, and there are two important things to note: Firstly, leadership does not necessarily require an official title.

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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In 1960, MIT management professor, Douglas McGregor’s book, The Human Side of Enterprise, outlined the opposing motivational approaches of Theory X and Theory Y. The division leader who hired me woke up a few months prior and realized their management-leadership balance was way out of whack.

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The Three Top Priorities of a Great Church Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Image by David McGregor. Self-leadership is essential for every church leader. In the context of church leadership, this means being able to lead yourself toward and concentrating on the Creator. The outcome will show through in your personal life and leadership. Dan is an author and award-winning leadership blogger.

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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. Leadership mcgregor theory x&y'

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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

Advice] [Personal Development] This is the leadership style of the future With the growing focus on net zero and sustainability, these five core qualities should be key to your leadership style [Article] [Employment Landscape] We’re all going on a summer holiday – at the same time!

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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. 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. We define TOMO and outline how the science of motivation can help build high performing cultures.