The Genius of Douglas McGregor

Nipawin - January 3, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

social intelligence
We must stop our regressive conventional economists in taking over our lives by supporting

governmental directions to satisfy the vested interest of ever bigger multinational corporations.

In my last article, I contrasted the social intelligence of Douglas McGregor versus Hernando

De Soto's.

human
nature
McGregor focuses our social growth on our own intrinsic intelligence and creativity, while

De Soto focuses our social growth on the external reward of well defined property rights.

McGregor's ideas of an intelligent man are closer to our human nature rather than De Soto's

ideas of a man happy with his defined property rights. I find McGregor's genius revealing

as he visualizes, in the late 1950s, a knowledge based economy where the conventional

notions of productivity are meaningless. I feel gratified to provide the following excerpt

from McGregor's essay "New Concepts of Management"

creative intellectual effort

..Intellectual creativity cannot be 'programmed' and directed the way we program and direct an assembly line or an accounting department. This kind of intellectual contribution to the enterprise cannot be obtained by giving orders, by traditional supervisory practices, or by close systems of control. Even conventional notions of productivity are meaningless with reference to the creative intellectual effort. Management has not yet considered in any depth what is involved in managing an organization heavily populated with people whose prime contribution consists of creative intellectual effort...[Heil/Bennis/Stephens 2000 page 145]

--------------References:

On Hernando De Soto, a mechanical economist, and Douglas McGregor, a humanist at work, by Mario deSantis, December 30, 2000

Douglas McGregor, Revisited: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise, by Gary Heil, Warren Bennis, Deborah C. Stephens, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000. ISBN 0-471-31462-5. Gary Heil and Deborah C. Stephens are coufounders of the Center for Innovative Leadership http://www.cfil.com/ And Warren Bennis is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California http://behavior.net/column/bennis/bio.html


Nipawin - January 3, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

social intelligence	We must stop our regressive conventional economists in taking over our lives by supporting
	governmental directions to satisfy the vested interest of ever bigger multinational corporations.
	In my last article, I contrasted the social intelligence of Douglas McGregor versus Hernando
	De Soto's.

human nature	McGregor focuses our social growth on our own intrinsic intelligence and creativity, while
	De Soto focuses our social growth on the external reward of well defined property rights.
	McGregor's ideas of an intelligent man are closer to our human nature rather than De Soto's
	ideas of a man happy with his defined property rights. I find McGregor's genius revealing
	as he visualizes, in the late 1950s, a knowledge based economy where the conventional
	notions of productivity are meaningless. I feel gratified to provide the following excerpt
	from McGregor's essay "New Concepts of Management"

*creative intellectual effort*	..Intellectual creativity cannot be 'programmed' and directed the way we program and direct an assembly line or an accounting department. This kind of intellectual contribution to the enterprise cannot be obtained by giving orders, by traditional supervisory practices, or by close systems of control. Even conventional notions of productivity are meaningless with reference to the creative intellectual effort. Management has not yet considered in any depth what is involved in managing an organization heavily populated with people whose prime contribution consists of creative intellectual effort...[Heil/Bennis/Stephens 2000 page 145]

--------------References:

	On Hernando De Soto, a mechanical economist, and Douglas McGregor, a humanist at work, by Mario deSantis, December 30, 2000

	Douglas McGregor, Revisited: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise, by Gary Heil, Warren Bennis, Deborah C. Stephens, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000. ISBN 0-471-31462-5. Gary Heil and Deborah C. Stephens are coufounders of the Center for Innovative Leadership http://www.cfil.com/ And Warren Bennis is Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California http://behavior.net/column/bennis/bio.html