The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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. This human relations movement focused on the psychological and social needs of workers.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 23, 2023

You’ll find more fresh content on CMI Insights this week to help you drive delivery: Is your team engaging in “productivity theatre”?

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Image by David McGregor. Those areas include personal devotions, training and equipping staff and volunteers, and building and strengthening relationships. Spending a large portion of your time and energy in those areas will allow you to be a successful church leader. Let’s discuss each one of those areas. Personal Devotions.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. The following is a guest piece by Bill Treasurer. A lot has been written about Transformational Leadership.

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Deming Institute

JULY 1, 2019

Human Side of Enterprise by Douglas McGregor. Reward and Incentive Programs are Ineffective — Even Harmful by Peter Scholtes. The Trouble With Motivation – Deming’s SoPK Part II by Jussi Kyllonen. Tim Higgins on Psychology and Intrinsic Motivation. Peter Scholtes on Understanding People and Motivation.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2012

” Jena McGregor published an interview with Zenger and Folkman last Friday. Their blog post has generated over 200 comments and perspectives on this issue so far. The Washington Post reports on “a whirlwind of response … one of the most read articles on the (HBR) site in the past 30 days.”

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The second was the chapter “Theory X & Theory Why” a tribute to McGregor that makes the case for hiring self-motivated people so management doesn’t have to supervise. This idea worked to turn Kinko’s into a billion dollar despite their flagship product being 10-cent photocopies.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 7, 2020

There was a time when the focus of that distinction was on determining whether a manager had Theory X or Theory Y assumptions about others (Douglas McGregor). You can only draw inference about it based on what you do see. Today, it centers around the work of Carol Dweck ( fixed or growth mindset? ).

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Deming Institute

JULY 1, 2019

Human Side of Enterprise by Douglas McGregor. Reward and Incentive Programs are Ineffective — Even Harmful by Peter Scholtes. The Trouble With Motivation – Deming’s SoPK Part II by Jussi Kyllonen. Tim Higgins on Psychology and Intrinsic Motivation. Peter Scholtes on Understanding People and Motivation.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 20, 2015

This is in line with many thinkers, teachers and writers on organisations and management including Douglas McGregor, Frederick Herzberg and William Ouchi. A manager, said Deming, is primarily a manager of People. People, given respect, the context and freedom to contribute, make the difference in achieving enduring organisational success.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

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.

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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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Curious Cat

JANUARY 17, 2017

” – Douglas McGregor. . – Taiichi Ohno. The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people?” ” is, “You don’t.” People who can’t understand numbers are useless. The gemba where numbers are not visible is also bad.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

” – Douglas McGregor. . – Taiichi Ohno. The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people?” ” is, “You don’t.” Performance appraisal is that occasion when once a year you find out who claims sovereignty over you. – Peter Block.

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

McGregor Theory X Y. Managing Multiple Change. Managing Risk. Learning Model. Management Cycle. Health & safety, risk & loss control leadership. Managing Change. Risk and Innovation. Maslow Needs. MBTI styles. Managing TimeUrgent Important. Noelle Neumann. Motivation Theory. Psychometric test model. Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 23, 2016

John and the gang were inspired by Long Way Round with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. I’ve also seen it change the lives of others. It was great to see that A Story Worth Living was also inspired by others. That movie was the catalyst for this documentary. Their story inspired a new story. It can and it will.

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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.

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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. ” Principles to Remember.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

This model was published in Growing @ the Speed of Change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

You've probably heard that President Obama is getting flak for surrounding himself with a bevy of male advisers as he begins his second term, and Jena McGregor agrees that there's a diversity problem in the president's inner circle — but not just because of gender.

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CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

It has been the subject of countless books, articles, and academic investigations from the 1980s up to the present day, including a seminal work on the theory by James McGregor Burns in 1978. If you’re looking for a leadership theory with a broad base of research behind it, then Transformational Leadership Theory is probably your best bet.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Warren credited various influences, including Douglas McGregor, whose exposition of Theory X versus Theory Y famously opened managers’ eyes to better ways of managing people. Why did he gravitate to leadership in the first place?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Then-president of UAW Local 22 at the plant, George McGregor said Barra was “a people person, great to work with.” Back in 1999, promoted from then CEO Jack Smith’s executive assistant to head of internal communications, Barra successfully healed GM’s relations with the United Auto Workers after a strike in Michigan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

It is the very opposite of the supportive and nurturing Theory Y management pioneered by MIT's Douglas McGregor over a half century ago. Knight's treatment of players has been termed abusive. He shouted, pushed, denigrated, humiliated, threatened, and harped on faults.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Guest post by Dr. Doug Stilwell and Dr. Randy Peters of Drake University*. As the ancient Eastern proverb goes, a prince once saw a musician tuning his sitar (stringed instrument). When the strings were too slack, the instrument would not play. When the strings were too tight, they would snap.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

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).

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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."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre. When all the value in an organization walks out the door each evening, a different managerial contract than the command-and-control mindset prevalent in execution type work is required.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 3, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 5, 2012

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2011

By now you should be familiar with Jeffrey Fox and his several bestselling business books, with the most recent being his best…thus far: How to Be a Fierce Competitor: What Winning Companies and Grerat Managers Do in Tough Times (2010). I just received an email alert from his website that includes this offer: You can [.].

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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 28, 2013

What Nelson Mandela Had to Say About Leadership By: Jena McGregor via The Washington Post Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition Monday due to a recurring lung infection for the second day — sobering news about the revered 94-year-old icon who, as Time managing editor Richard Stengel once called him ….

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