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
   

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