Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas McGregor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American professor Douglas McGregor.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

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.

American - Professor | 1906 - October 1, 1964

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An objective without a plan is a dream.

Douglas McGregor

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

Douglas McGregor

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Douglas McGregor

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

Douglas McGregor

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.

Douglas McGregor

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

Douglas McGregor

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.

Douglas McGregor

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.

Douglas McGregor

Trust means "I know that you will not-deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously-take unfair advantage of me." It means "I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in the group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life in your hands with complete confidence."

Douglas McGregor

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas McGregor

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