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Do You Have What It Takes to Help Your Team Be Creative?

Harvard Business Review

McClelland got the ball rolling in the 1970s. In a recent study with an ethnically-diverse sample of 1,337 managers in 19 countries (mainly the U.S. Competencies testing and training has proved invaluable in business ever since Harvard psychologist David C.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When I asked him to do research for me on case studies that proved our concepts in a practical manner, he brought me a textbook and asked me to "define" what I meant by practical, as he was looking up terms I was using and couldn't find them. This tracks the "drives" theory of David McClelland.

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