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Leading Thoughts for May 11, 2023

Leading Blog

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. Source: The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower II. Management does not put them there.

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Endo and Exoskeleton plus natural metaphors for organizational capacity

Mike Cardus

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. Do you see your business as “war”?

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EBM: X&Y

LDRLB

Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human motivation created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s. McGregor felt that companies followed either one or the other approach. For McGregor, Theory X and Y are not different sides of the same coin.

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The Three Top Priorities of a Great Church Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Image by David McGregor. Daily devotions could include: reading the Bible, praying, worshiping, reflecting and thinking on scripture or about Him, reading spiritual development content, and/or having times of solitude. Spending a large portion of your time and energy in those areas will allow you to be a successful church leader.

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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

Advice] [Personal Development] This is the leadership style of the future With the growing focus on net zero and sustainability, these five core qualities should be key to your leadership style [Article] [Employment Landscape] We’re all going on a summer holiday – at the same time!

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New Study Shows Women Do It Better Than Men

The Practical Leader

And women proved to be better at nurturing competencies such as developing others and building relationships. ” Jena McGregor published an interview with Zenger and Folkman last Friday. They were also ahead of most men in “taking initiative,” “practicing self-development,” and “driving for results.”

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Review of “Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership” by Warren Bennis

The Practical Leader

The next year (1948) Douglas McGregor (best remembered for The Human Side of Enterprise and its description of leadership approaches Theory X and Theory Y) became Antioch’s president. This began a close mentoring relationship until McGregor’s early and sudden death in 1964. in economics and social sciences.