The Human Side of Enterprise

By Douglas McGregor,

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"What are your assumptions (implicit as well as explicit) about the most effective way to manage people?"

So began Douglas McGregor in this 1960 management classic. It was a seemingly simple question he asked, yet it led to a fundamental revolution in management. Today, with the rise of the global…

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1 author picked The Human Side of Enterprise as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

We all know how important culture is to DevOps.

Well, Doug McGregor was one of the earliest proponents of healthy workplace culture. The Human Side of Enterprise was written during the 1950s and contains the kind of advice you might associate with Dan Pink’s more recent book, Drive.

If you want to read a book from the pivot point between command and control management and modern theories of motivation, this is the place to start.

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