I am honored to win the 2016 Community Media Rika Welch leadership award for community impact; a testimony to the Guests who shared their stories on MidLIFE Matters. In addition, an 2018 interview I did with Judith Altmann, a Holocaust Survivor, won an award. In 2020 and 2021 two other awards acknowledged the content of interviews dealing with Child Sex Trafficking in CT and Non-Profit leadership. In 2023 MidLIFE Matters won First Place for a Profile Talk Show.Theory X and Theory Y, Revisited
Saturday, January 4, 2014 at 01:54PM 
Are workers cogs in a profit wheel, or can they make the wheel bigger? In 1960, during the dawn of modern management theories, Douglas McGregor squared off against Taylor's efficiency model. McGregor espoused building on people's natural instincts to perform well, vs. Taylor's dehumanizing time-and-motion principles.
Well, McGregor must be smiling down on Zeynep Ton, a Turkish woman who is a professor at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Managment -- also McGregor's pulpit. She has demonstrated how retail workers can add to the bottom line, while earning respectable wages.
Read Adam Davidson's piece in The New York Times Magazine, 01/05/14 - "A Ready-To-Asemble Business Plan" to see how progressive managment practices have made Ikea a better place to work - and shop.
My own experience with leading self-managed teams in a pink-collar insurance environment was also proof positive.
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