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Why Modern Management is so Hard
Modern managers have it hard. In ‘the good old days’ managers could expect to simply dictate targets, set tasks and instruct their staff. What a wonderful world that must have been for managers!...
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Theory X is dead: Long live Theory X
We don’t yet have a whole alphabet of management theories, but we are on our way. It all started with Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. Then, towards the end of his life, McGregor added a...
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Styles of Management
This is part of an extended management course. You can dip into it, or follow the course from the start. If you do that, you may want a course notebook, for the exercises and any notes you want to...
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Why Modern Management is so Hard
Modern managers have it hard. In ‘the good old days’ managers could expect to simply dictate targets, set tasks and instruct their staff. What a wonderful world that must have been for managers!...
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Theory X is dead: Long live Theory X
We don’t yet have a whole alphabet of management theories, but we are on our way. It all started with Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. Then, towards the end of his life, McGregor added a...
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Styles of Management
This is part of an extended management course. You can dip into it, or follow the course from the start. If you do that, you may want a course notebook, for the exercises and any notes you want to...
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David Packard: The HP way
When I was a physics postgrad, all of the best electronic equipment in our lab was made by one company; the oscilloscope, signal generator, analog-digital converter and the plotter. They were made by...
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Mary Parker Follett: Management Visionary
‘Ahead of her time’ seems to be the most appropriate epiphet to apply to Mary Parker Follett. And many have done so: Peter Drucker described her as a ‘prophet of management’, while Warren Bennis has...
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Abraham Maslow: Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow never set out to be a management thinker: his attention was on people in the round. It was only his desire to test out his ideas – and those of colleague Douglas McGregor – that led him...
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