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What Are Your Needs?

CO2

Today, we’ll review three attempts to classify human needs: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Alderfer’s ERG Theory, and McClelland’s Need Theory. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. According to Abraham Maslow, humans feel compelled to satisfy lower-order needs before attending to higher-order needs. McClelland’s Need Theory.

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People Are the Puck

Harvard Business Review

Much the same can be said of the quantitative data most business managers are forced to use while trying to make important investment decisions, or while analyzing and benchmarking in a 'gated' product/service development process. Cultural understanding is about personal familiarity or immersion.