2015 Bureaucracy Marketing McGregor 
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 14, 2014
Passing the CEO baton to Barra tomorrow , Akerson said that she “brought order to chaos” in GM’s vast product development organization, mostly by flattening its bureaucracy and cutting overlapping layers of executives. She had “an ability with people” and a track record of bringing new models to market faster and at lower cost.
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). One reason is that an unholy alliance links shareholder value theory and hierarchical bureaucracy.
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