Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 23, 2023

Scientists think that the brain’s dopamine reward system plays an integral role – the “feel good” chemical that’s released when we do something pleasurable. But why should managers care about flow? Management attention is one of an organisation’s most precious resources. What's going on in the brain?

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McGregor How To Advice Chemicals 52

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. Find the source of the sluggishness.

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McGregor How To Brainstorming Micromanagement 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Even humanist change initiatives that were objectively dramatically successful have often been discarded by the firms that introduced them.

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Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Deming Institute

AUGUST 20, 2015

The linked to article that aims to provides an overview of the essence of Deming’s approach to management and its continuing relevance to managers: The Model of Sustainable Organisation by Alan Clark. A manager, said Deming, is primarily a manager of People.

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