Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2020

The use of metaphors for organization development , capacity building, and change can create multiple paths for you and your team to make decisions and solve problems. Business metaphors often return to McGregor’s theory x and theory y of manager’s perceptions of workers. Dragonfly and constraints on change.

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Constraint McGregor Compliance Maturity 135

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When you find yourself thinking about old-fashioned, out-of-touch, hierarchical, siloed organizations, General Motors quickly comes to mind. She had “an ability with people” and a track record of bringing new models to market faster and at lower cost. They play well as a team.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8