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

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.

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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. ” Principles to Remember.

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McGregor How To Brainstorming Micromanagement 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

You've probably heard that President Obama is getting flak for surrounding himself with a bevy of male advisers as he begins his second term, and Jena McGregor agrees that there's a diversity problem in the president's inner circle — but not just because of gender.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Warren credited various influences, including Douglas McGregor, whose exposition of Theory X versus Theory Y famously opened managers’ eyes to better ways of managing people. Why did he gravitate to leadership in the first place?

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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. It is not clear that style adjusting, which is the goal of many training programs and performance reviews, will result in improved executive performance. We don't know the answer.

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McGregor Micromanagement Leadership Performance Review 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Then-president of UAW Local 22 at the plant, George McGregor said Barra was “a people person, great to work with.” Back in 1999, promoted from then CEO Jack Smith’s executive assistant to head of internal communications, Barra successfully healed GM’s relations with the United Auto Workers after a strike in Michigan.

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Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s).

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Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

But the outpouring of opinions, argues Jena McGregor , may be a good thing: "As long as the argument persists about how to get more women at the top, it remains on everyone''s minds — and hopefully, on more people''s agendas."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre. When all the value in an organization walks out the door each evening, a different managerial contract than the command-and-control mindset prevalent in execution type work is required.

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