Douglas McGregor famous quotes

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

#Average #Management #Ingenuity

Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.
-- Douglas McGregor

#Men #Bread #Live By

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

#Animal #Men #Needs

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

#Teamwork #Boss #Prestige

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

#Risk #Roles #Want

Relationships is a growing part of life; not life growing apart.
-- Douglas McGregor

#Growing #Parts Of Life

An objective without a plan is a dream.
-- Douglas McGregor

#Dream #Plans #Objectives

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

#Jobs #Self Esteem #Mean

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.
-- Douglas McGregor

#Goal #Behavior #Should

If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

The average man. The emergence of the concept.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world -- intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man..

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

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

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.