The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

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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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.

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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. You cannot manage a workforce by computer.

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CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

Spencer believed that even those predisposed to leadership couldn’t emerge as influential figures without the help of social conditions outside of their control, and that great leaders were more the products of their environments than any particular inborn talents.

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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. Auto industry Leading teams'

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This method of management may well be fueled by Douglas McGregor’s “Theory X” mentality in which a leader has little faith that those they lead are capable of being productive and contributing members of the organization.

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System Senge Management Deming 66

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. Jobs was famous for getting involved in details for all aspects of a product including design, packaging, and advertising. Knight's treatment of players has been termed abusive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Only glimmers of what was to come showed up in the work of thinkers such as Adam Smith, with his insight that the division of labor would increase productivity. Along with the new means of production, organizations gained scale. Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre.

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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. Deming is often misrepresented as promoting only continual improvement of products and processes. A manager, said Deming, is primarily a manager of People.

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