Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Might this proverb apply to systems leadership in schools, as well? Is “tunefulness” the optimal state for a system to best achieve its desired results? How might a leader promote a “tuneful harmony” so that the system that is neither too tightly or loosely “strung?”.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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 planning session centered on processes, metrics, and systems. This human relations movement focused on the psychological and social needs of workers.

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LDRLB

MARCH 22, 2016

Need Doshi and Lindsay McGregor are partners in life, work, and writing. In this interview, we dive deep into culture, systems, and motivation. The are the founders of the consulting firm Vega Factor and authors of Primed to Perform. We define TOMO and outline how the science of motivation can help build high performing cultures.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2010

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. Management believes that workers need to be closely supervised and comprehensive systems of controls developed.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 17, 2017

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2016 (based on page views). ” – Douglas McGregor. A bad system will beat a good person every time. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

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Ohno Deming McGregor Management 40

Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2015 (based on page views). ” – Douglas McGregor. A bad system will beat a good person every time. A system is more than the sum of its parts; it is an indivisible whole. – Taiichi Ohno. Edwards Deming.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

It is also worth noting that in this era, ownership of capital, which permitted acquisition and expansion of means of production (factories and other systems), was the basis for economic well-being. A wealthy industrialist, Joseph Wharton aspired to produce “pillars of the state” whose leadership would extend across business and public life.

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