Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 23, 2023

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Hotels McGregor Leadership Styles Ryan 52

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Kinko’s often hired employees for attitude and creativity in order to ensure a cultural fit, believing they could train for skills later. This idea worked to turn Kinko’s into a billion dollar despite their flagship product being 10-cent photocopies.

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Review McGregor Books Decentralization 68

The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

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. 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

It’s one of the key factors in the 50 – 70% failure rate for programs to increase safety performance, service and quality levels, Lean/Six Sigma, productivity, innovation, leadership skills. A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle. This model was published in Growing @ the Speed of Change.

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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. You cannot manage a workforce by computer.

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McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

It is the very opposite of the supportive and nurturing Theory Y management pioneered by MIT's Douglas McGregor over a half century ago. Jobs was famous for getting involved in details for all aspects of a product including design, packaging, and advertising. Knight's treatment of players has been termed abusive.

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McGregor Micromanagement Leadership Performance Review 14