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Leading Thoughts for May 11, 2023

Leading Blog

Douglas McGregor on motivation: “The motivation, the potential for development, the capacity for assuming responsibility, the readiness to direct behavior toward organizational goals are all present in people. Source: The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower II. Management does not put them there.

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The Impact Of Leaders On Personal Transformation

Tanveer Naseer

The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. People will move mountains for you if in exchange for doing so they get to grow and develop. People grow and develop in a zone of dis comfort, not comfort. The following is a guest piece by Bill Treasurer.

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The Three Top Priorities of a Great Church Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Image by David McGregor. Daily devotions could include: reading the Bible, praying, worshiping, reflecting and thinking on scripture or about Him, reading spiritual development content, and/or having times of solitude. Spending a large portion of your time and energy in those areas will allow you to be a successful church leader.

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EBM: X&Y

LDRLB

Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human motivation created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s. McGregor felt that companies followed either one or the other approach. For McGregor, Theory X and Y are not different sides of the same coin.

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Endo and Exoskeleton plus natural metaphors for organizational capacity

Mike Cardus

The use of metaphors for organization development , capacity building, and change can create multiple paths for you and your team to make decisions and solve problems. Business metaphors often return to McGregor’s theory x and theory y of manager’s perceptions of workers. Do you see your business as “war”?

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New Study Shows Women Do It Better Than Men

The Practical Leader

And women proved to be better at nurturing competencies such as developing others and building relationships. ” Jena McGregor published an interview with Zenger and Folkman last Friday. They were also ahead of most men in “taking initiative,” “practicing self-development,” and “driving for results.”

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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

CO2

It isn’t hard to see how this could apply in the workplace, and that’s just what organizational scholars did, showing that leaders develop different relationships with each subordinate as each party defines their respective roles. The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership was developed in the mid-’70s by Martin G. Evans and Robert J.