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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. If your project displays any of these signs, it’s time to radically change what you’re doing or pull the plug. Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. Isn’t this thing connected to the internet?

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. The company did more than 4,000 deals…most risky and without research, planning and benchmarking. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. Executives never stayed long. Accounting.