Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2020

The use of metaphors for organization development , capacity building, and change can create multiple paths for you and your team to make decisions and solve problems. Business metaphors often return to McGregor’s theory x and theory y of manager’s perceptions of workers. Dragonfly and constraints on change.

Constraint 135

Constraint McGregor Compliance Maturity 135

Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 2a. At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. This set contains the slides from all of our management, change, talent & leadership models slide sets.

Download 42

Download Noelle-Neumann McGregor Management 42

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. The executive/manager’s beliefs form his or her reality that drives behavior. Catch people doing things right. Play to win.

Six Sigma 49

Six Sigma McGregor Workshop Tools 49

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.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

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.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8