Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Douglas McGregor on motivation: “The motivation, the potential for development, the capacity for assuming responsibility, the readiness to direct behavior toward organizational goals are all present in people. Management does not put them there.

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McGregor Construction Motivation Follow-up 393

CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

It isn’t hard to see how this could apply in the workplace, and that’s just what organizational scholars did, showing that leaders develop different relationships with each subordinate as each party defines their respective roles. PATH-GOAL THEORY OF LEADERSHIP. Evans and Robert J. IMPLICIT LEADERSHIP THEORIES.

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Leadership Contingency Theory Leadership Styles Proposal 131

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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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. Eliminate roadblocks and hurdles.

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McGregor How To Brainstorming Micromanagement 10

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. More broadly, they are anyone who influences others toward the achievement of goals. Ten years after receiving the hard-to-hear feedback, the middle manager considers it the single most important conversation he had in his entire career.

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McGregor Middle Management Hammer Influence 276

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

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