Douglas McGregor Quotes

#1. The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

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#2. Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

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#3. Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

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#4. An objective without a plan is a dream.

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#5. Relationships is a growing part of life; not life growing apart.

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#6. It is probable that one day we shall begin to draw organization charts as a series of linked groups rather than as a hierarchical structure of individual "reporting" relationships. These

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#7. Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

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#8. Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

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#9. Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement the change that no-one asked for or wants.

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