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What Motivates You In Your Business?

Strategy Driven

What motivates you in your business? Discrimination motivated me and I pushed harder, worked tirelessly, looked past boundaries, dug into my creativity, and became a top salesperson in the first company, and opened a business in the printing/publishing field with my specific niche some years later. What do you strive to accomplish?

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4 Ways to Promote Productivity

Lead Change Blog

These employees have to be led in a systematic fashion to ensure that all efforts are channeled towards a common goal. In this manner, they will be motivated to work towards achieving them. A motivated employee is a very productive employee, and this inclusion is one of the ways to boost their morale. Koontz Et Al.

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Disciplined Thinking

Lead Change Blog

My willingness to engage with others about property values, the local housing market, and the value I bring to helping someone buy or sell a house is what motivates me to do this activity, when I would rather be sitting in the air-conditioning somewhere with a large iced tea, watching the clouds float by overhead. COMMUNITY DISCIPLINE.

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10 Questions Leaders Must Answer When Making Big Decisions

Great Leadership By Dan

Because no matter how much more complex the world seems to become and no matter how much more quickly we race to outrun others, great leaders operate from a set of principles they use daily as filters for making decisions. At the heart of sound decision-making is being crystal clear about what you stand for.

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5 Tips for Achieving a Successful Business Merger

Strategy Driven

Nevertheless, careful preparation can ensure it is a smooth operation. If these milestones are tied together with incentives, employees and managers will be more motivated to get it all done in a swift fashion. To assist with the integration, tackle the entire process with bite-sized milestones.

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The Mismanagement of Change (And 5 Ways to Get It Right)

Lead Change Blog

We are compelled to bind ourselves to the external world and have a fundamental motivation to believe that our perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors are correct. This adds to the likelihood that change will be executed in a fashion that simply doesn’t work for the employee. Interests are aligned but they aren’t mutual.

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The Top 5 Mistakes Leaders Make

Great Leadership By Dan

With the huge menu of communication technologies available to companies, messages should be delivered in person, electronically in written, audio, and video, as well as the old fashioned way, printed hard copy. Misunderstanding Motivation. It is the pursuit of perfection that motivates. Ineffective Feedback.