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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

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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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

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. Then-president of UAW Local 22 at the plant, George McGregor said Barra was “a people person, great to work with.”

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