Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 7, 2017

That we no longer view employees through the lens of Fredrick Taylor’s scientific approach to management – where people are merely assets, and interactions are transactional in nature. We see this in those tasks that we are internally motivated to take on because they are directly tied to the things we genuinely care about.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 5, 2016

Researchers from The Wharton School have been studying what they call the “fresh-start effect” and the impact this has on our motivational drive to achieve the goals we set up for ourselves. So what does this study’s findings have to do with increasing our motivation to achieve our goals after returning from a vacation break?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand.

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

That’s one important takeaway from a new Towers Watson study -- the latest piece of research to highlight the chasm of perception that often exists between management and front-line employees. The simplest way to better understand your employees -- from what frustrates them to what motivates them -- is to ask. Ask your staff.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones that inspire, motivate and challenge others. only to fail in miserable fashion. Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point? They are the ones who have earned the trust, loyalty and respect of their co-workers. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. Read on and find out… People who attempt to lead out of self-serving motivations or misplaced intentions are not really leading – they are pursuing power, glory and status.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

I have spent my life studying people and have conducted exhaustive amounts of research which supports my belief that anyone is capable of changing if they have the intrinsic motivation to do so. Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

To uncover a leader’s strategic thinking capacity, I utilize a tool called the Inventory of Workplace Attitude and Motivations (IWAM) to assess a leader’s strength in the Core 6, as well as dominant mental patterns blocking a leader from thinking strategically. Below are my Core 6 characteristics of strategic thinking. Future Oriented.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. It is absolutely essential to understand other’s motivations prior to weighing in.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Moreover, building rapport is easily achieved assuming your motivations for doing so are sincere. Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help avoid conflicts.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill — who is a leader, no doubt about it — decided to declare war on “they.”

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Time Management: As a solo entrepreneur, I find myself toggling between prospecting for new business, meeting with clients, administrative responsibilities, networking, planning, strategizing, and, oh, I almost forgot…actually doing the work! Make them realistic and achievable yet ambitious enough to stay motivated.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

I’m so lucky to be able to lead (and be led by) a team of great people who share my number motivation: Zane Benefits’ mission to level the playing field for small businesses. Fifth, use technology to accelerate momentum. And, manage the company toward continued improvement and results. I love my job. It doesn’t feel like work.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill -- who is a leader, no doubt about it -- decided to declare war on "they."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

But even when the technology is ready to use and has been shown to meet customer demands, there’s still a great deal of skepticism among consumers. In order to understand trust in the relationship between humans and automation, we have to explore trust in two dimensions: trust in the technology and trust in the innovating firm.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. Today’s technologies and consumer needs change faster than traditional business road maps can deliver, and employees need to be ready and empowered to move at this pace.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

By providing instant and continuous recognition of positive behavior, typically via a public social platform, they yield more and richer data on employees, offering managers a clearer picture of a team or company’s strengths and weaknesses and everyone a better sense of how they’re performing. Embrace new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Coinciding with this is recent discussion in the business media that since “work” no longer adheres to the traditional 9-5, and technology allows us to be connected anywhere and everywhere, perhaps those longer work hours should be reconciled with more time off. But your supply of motivation and creativity is not endless.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

It is an ongoing management discipline; as a living, breathing organism, your organization must be continually refined and improved. Such design should motivated by a desire to: Realize the benefits of scale, bringing together people who perform similar work. Organization design is not a static, one-time event.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. If you have talented and motivated people," Furnham says , "they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Having tools that capture exhaustive data about customers, quantify minute aspects of their behavior, and measure their responses can create a false sense that one knows customers really well and understands their motivations and triggers. Marketing algorithms encourage analytical consumer decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. Instead of encouraging people to do their jobs in traditional fashion and perhaps volunteer for philanthropic activities on the side, leading companies make sustainability a core part of the work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

If you're a manager of a large business, you know the challenges involved in retaining talented people, guiding their progress toward important objectives, and having them feel a deep sense of engagement with the organization. Regardless of your technology framework, don't make the tool or the interaction overly complex or artificial.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Bill George , Professor at Harvard Business School and widely respected former CEO of medical technology maker Medtronic , is a great example of clearly declaring oneself, providing excellent results and remaining accountable. His research uncovered that the number one key motivator is autonomy, or acting with choice.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

With the Millenials' exodus to social media platforms from good old-fashioned email accounts, the lines between our business and personal lives are increasingly blurred. By the same token, I spend much time pitching Great on the Job (GOTJ) training workshops to HR departments across Wall Street, where I worked for several years.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2020

A lot of managers will sit back and evaluate employees on their mistakes alone, instead of looking at the other side of the equation: the business that they won. Management should sell workers’ tasks as noble, exciting, and worthwhile. Even though they have fallen out of fashion, they’re not defunct.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Over the past decade, technological advances have enabled us to work at all hours, often at great expense to our sleep. All of these practices feed employees’ intrinsic need for learning, enabling them to pursue new interests in a self-directed fashion, fostering both autonomy and personal development.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Yet whatever Burger King’s actual motivation, it’s not surprising that some people have reacted strongly, condemning the company as a “traitor” and urging a boycott of its restaurants. They regard business management as a stewardship, and they expect it to operate the economy as a public trust for the benefit of all the people.”.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. They use the information acquired through reading in order to inspire, motivate, and lead those around them. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. In 2011 the board selected as the new CEO one of its own members, Heinrich Hiesinger, a Siemens executive with experience supplying technology to many industries. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

How will we manage them over time? Whether you are at the top of the company driving the remix, in the middle managing an acquisition or a partnership, or among the operating ranks keeping the pieces humming, you need to know the answers to such questions. How do we manage the risk and uncertainty inherent in such combinations?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article. We adjust our products to our clients’ behavior or workflows, acting as a benevolent invisible hand.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

We’ve found three main obstacles to realizing analytics’ full value, and all of them are related to people, not technology: the organization’s structure, culture, and approach to problem solving. That’s what happened at a financial services firm where management was mulling a change to its commission structure.

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