The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

I’ve long been a reader of Warren ’s books on leadership, change, and team/organization dynamics. 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. in economics and social sciences.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2011

A team or organization’s culture can be quite subtle. Theory Y beliefs; people are self-motivated and self-controlled, want to take pride in their work, be on a winning team, and can be trusted.) The shared reality and behavior of the management team is the key driver of the culture of the organization they lead.

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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. Have you wondered if the team was up for it? 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. It can and it will.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

So what do you do if you have a tortoise on your team? 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. How do you diagnose why he takes so long to get his work done?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

He also centralized IT to remove redundancies and incompatibilities that made teaming across silos nearly impossible. Call it instinct, call it talent, it was Barra’s ability to encourage teaming that catapulted her to the top of an organization with 212,000 employees. They play well as a team. Auto industry Leading teams'

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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. — Andy O’Connell.

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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 not only had an amazing knowledge of the game, but he also had insight into competitors and an ability to tailor the efforts of players and a team to get them in a position to win.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. They are heads of teams, departments, and divisions. The following is a guest piece by Bill Treasurer. A lot has been written about Transformational Leadership. Most leaders aren’t CEOs.

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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.

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