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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks. Goal Orientation.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. This tracks the "drives" theory of David McClelland. And he was considered an expert!

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