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Douglas McGregor

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Douglas Murray McGregor was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

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About Douglas McGregor

Douglas Murray McGregor was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Douglas McGregor

An objective without a plan is a dream.

Douglas McGregor

Dream

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Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change…

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Accepting

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for…

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Boss

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Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

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Behavior

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

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Bread

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Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process…

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Animal

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Trust means "I know that you will not-deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously-take unfair advantage of me." It means "I can put…

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Advantage

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

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Average

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

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Art of life

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