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Leading Thoughts for May 11, 2023

Leading Blog

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. Source: Leadership & Motivation * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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128: How to Shape Culture to Drive Performance | with Lindsay McGregor

Engaging Leader

To find a systematic, data-driven approach to shape culture, former McKinsey consultant Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi surveyed over 20,000 workers around the world, analyzed 50 major companies, and conducted scores of experiments before arriving at one major conclusion: Why people work determines how well they work.

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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. 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. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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How to achieve a flow state of mind

Chartered Management Institute

It’s a feeling of immersive joy, motivation and concentration. Csikszentmihalyi’s research has found that a state of flow involves energised focus on what you are doing in the present, devoid of distraction. The outside world, or any problems or issues cease to exist, generating a sense of efficacy. What's going on in the brain?

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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. When workers felt they and their work mattered, and were involved in workplace decisions, performance skyrocketed.

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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. The theories describe two very different attitudes toward workforce motivation. McGregor felt that companies followed either one or the other approach.

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In Case You Missed It: Nelson Mandela on Leadership + Info Graphics on Employee Engagement & Gen Y

leaderCommunicator

What Nelson Mandela Had to Say About Leadership By: Jena McGregor via The Washington Post Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition Monday due to a recurring lung infection for the second day — sobering news about the revered 94-year-old icon who, as Time managing editor Richard Stengel once called him …. The infographic spotlights….

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