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

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 23, 2023

Advice: How to achieve a flow state of mind Written by Samreen McGregor Wednesday 23 August 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email To find flow, you need clarity on your goals, the right amount of challenge, minimal distractions, plus a willingness to fall short, or even fail, but to learn from the journey Key (..)

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Deming Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

There is a big shift in thinking from thinking that a manager must motivate people to thinking a manager needs to remove the barriers to people’s intrinsic motivation (this of course was explained by Douglas McGregor in 1960 with theory x and theory y thinking in his book The Human Side of Enterprise).

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CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

PATH-GOAL THEORY OF LEADERSHIP. The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership was developed in the mid-’70s by Martin G. The Path-Goal part of the theory comes in with respect to how leaders can help get subordinates to feel this way about the task at hand. Evans and Robert J.

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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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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. The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals.

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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. Transformation will take less effort if it’s aligned with their personal goals and aspirations. The following is a guest piece by Bill Treasurer.

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