The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do. In 1960, MIT management professor, Douglas McGregor’s book, The Human Side of Enterprise, outlined the opposing motivational approaches of Theory X and Theory Y.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

But the outpouring of opinions, argues Jena McGregor , may be a good thing: "As long as the argument persists about how to get more women at the top, it remains on everyone''s minds — and hopefully, on more people''s agendas." This excellent tune , for example, is what I used to listen to at a previous job when launching new web content.

McGregor 8

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