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). The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people?” ” – Douglas McGregor. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Ohno 40

Ohno Deming McGregor Management 40

The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 7, 2020

Case in point: Bennis was by no means the first scholar to draw a distinction between leadership and management. Managers make sure those things are done … right.”. If you are a frontline manager in any size organization right now, it is difficult (at best) to pinpoint the things you need to be doing.

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Short-term McGregor Long-term Drucker 75

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

I’ve been playing around a lot with the idea of democracy in organizations (and the feasibility of its extremist cousin, decentralization). Author Dean Zatkowsky blends his own experience at Kinko’s with the greater case study of the organization, and even some classic management theory.

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Review Books McGregor Decentralization 68

The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2012

” Jena McGregor published an interview with Zenger and Folkman last Friday. Many organizations are sitting on a huge pool of talented women that is being underutilized. ” Senior managers rated the women in this study even more positively overall than did peers or direct reports. . Ask for feedback.

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McGregor Survey Report Learning-by-Doing 75

Deming Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. We are already well motivated… The only thing you can do as a manager is demotivate people. I believe that a manager can also take action to reduce the systemic demotivation present in the workplace (and I believe David agrees).

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Deming McGregor Motivation Video 44

The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

Peter Drucker was often called the father of modern management thinking. I’ve long been a reader of Warren ’s books on leadership, change, and team/organization dynamics. This began a close mentoring relationship until McGregor’s early and sudden death in 1964. in economics and social sciences.

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McGregor Open-book Review Leadership 40

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle. Many executives and managers don’t understand how the success of programs they’re trying to implement go way beyond the “hard&# tools to the “soft&# issues of leadership behaviors and culture. This model was published in Growing @ the Speed of Change.

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Six Sigma McGregor Workshop Tools 49

CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

Fiedler developed the Least Preferred Coworker Scale as a way to determine which managers would be the best fit for a leadership assignment. That’s a tall order, but one that many businesses, some hopelessly focused on profit over personnel, may need to find in management to help retain and motivate employees.

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Leadership Contingency Theory Leadership Styles Proposal 131

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

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. It was also central to how Sam built Circuit City.

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McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

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. “Start with assuming positive intent,” says McGregor. What the Experts Say.

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McGregor How To Brainstorming Micromanagement 12

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.

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Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

A half-century later, its message does not sound so revisionist: that in a business environment marked by increasingly complexity and constant change, organizations require not autocrats at the top, but leaders with more humanistic, democratic styles. It was called a “Revisionist Theory of Leadership,” and that is what it delivered.

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McGregor Leadership Open-book Storytelling 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. Call it instinct, call it talent, it was Barra’s ability to encourage teaming that catapulted her to the top of an organization with 212,000 employees. They play well as a team.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. It isn’t the only deeply-held and rarely examined notion that affects how organizations are run. Along with the new means of production, organizations gained scale.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

FireEye''s automatic malware-deletion function wasn''t enabled (which isn''t uncommon, as many organizations want a person, rather than a machine, making the decisions), and the alerts were ignored. Crisis management Information & technology Technology' Because the attack was spotted early, the whole mess could have been avoided.

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McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 5, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

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Taylorism Taylor Books Review 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 3, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

Taylorism 75

Taylorism Taylor Books Review 75