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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. Satisfy the motive and you will manage the behavior.

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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. In the meantime, the competition is managing their own innovation and coming up with similar or better improvements to their own products. If your project displays any of these signs, it’s time to radically change what you’re doing or pull the plug.

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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. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. Communications.