Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. It can become a real drag on your career unless you deal with it. Ten years after receiving the hard-to-hear feedback, the middle manager considers it the single most important conversation he had in his entire career.

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McGregor Middle Management Hammer Influence 278

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 …. An informal survey….

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McGregor Leadership Blog Motivation 141

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. He said technical and analytical skills were the key to career advancement at their company.

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McGregor Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 101

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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Leadership Contingency Theory Leadership Styles Proposal 131

The Practical Leader

MAY 16, 2011

Warren has a long and very distinguished career. 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.

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McGregor Open-book Review Leadership 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

In the last piece he wrote for HBR , a personal reflection, he even claimed that the keys to his successful career were “inglorious” ones: ambition, insecurity, labor, and luck. As the decades of his career passed, Warren continued to sail unafraid into topics that were hard to study but harder to ignore.

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McGregor Leadership Open-book Storytelling 10