The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 7, 2020

I won’t spoil the discussion for you (~20 minutes) but as a preview: There are key roles in any organization that are responsible for driving a disproportionate amount of the value that organization creates. What roles have become the key drivers of value in your organization since COVID-19? Doing Things Right.

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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

MAY 16, 2011

I’ve long been a reader of Warren ’s books on leadership, change, and team/organization dynamics. The next year (1948) Douglas McGregor (best remembered for The Human Side of Enterprise and its description of leadership approaches Theory X and Theory Y) became Antioch’s president. in economics and social sciences.

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McGregor Open-book Review Leadership 40

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

As I prepare for a series of webcasts, keynotes, workshops, and internal consultant/change agent training on culture change this fall, I’ve been reviewing research and what we’re learning first-hand from our work with long-term consulting and training Clients. A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle.

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Six Sigma McGregor Workshop Tools 49

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 11

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