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Endo and Exoskeleton plus natural metaphors for organizational capacity

Mike Cardus

Business metaphors often return to McGregor’s theory x and theory y of manager’s perceptions of workers. Do you see your life as a “river or journey”? Then flow, and exploration and unexpected things are part of your rhetoric and approach. Dragonfly and constraints on change.

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Rapid BI

Creativity in Innovation. Innovation Paradigms. Innovation Model. Innovation & knowledge transfer. Risk and Innovation. McGregor Theory X Y. Creativity Cycle. Culture Presentation. Organisational Culture. IT Services Management Model. Johari Window. Kirkpatrick Evaluation. Knowledge Transfer Model.

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Unconscious and Underlying Beliefs Undermine Culture Change Efforts

The Practical Leader

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. Culture change continues to be a hot topic because it’s vital to successfully implementing change and improvement efforts.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

Then-president of UAW Local 22 at the plant, George McGregor said Barra was “a people person, great to work with.” Bringing teaming into an organization plagued by legacy routines and mindsets is critical to reviving innovation and employee engagement. Innovation is always the product of teaming. Auto industry Leading teams'

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). As a result, customers’ expectations are raised.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM.

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Building a Sustainable Organization Using Deming’s Ideas on Management

Deming Institute

This is in line with many thinkers, teachers and writers on organisations and management including Douglas McGregor, Frederick Herzberg and William Ouchi. … Properly understanding the needs of the customer should lead on to innovation. A manager, said Deming, is primarily a manager of People.

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