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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

While there are certain patterns important to all leaders – such as, a high people interest, specific leadership roles may require different motivational patterns to be successful. A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., Goal Orientation.

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The Leader's Role in Crisis - a Guest Post from John Baldoni

Kevin Eikenberry

McClelland was a general without any sense of timing or engagement. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! George McClellan, commander of Union forces was an officer who prided himself on preparation and drill.

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Why We Shy Away From Ambition

The Office Blend Blog

Someone who has worked through obstacles and barriers to achieve success? You can see McClelland’s work here ). The very process of envisioning and striving for goals and success, is often viewed a hollow and empty path. Yet, it is just as likely that you entertained negative thoughts or even recoiled.

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Mastering your Inner Game of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Starting in the 1960s, the late Harvard psychologist David McClelland and a group of researchers wanted to understand great leadership and why it matters. McClelland called these qualities ‘socialized’ power. In our early careers a certain amount of ego is essential to drive success.

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Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager

Harvard Business Review

You’re confident that you can navigate this new challenge with characteristic success. You set clear goals for yourself and targets for the division. As a superstar in your previous jobs, you met every goal, every time. But, people see that you really care about your goals, your standards — not theirs.

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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. I have pushed the competencies approach into several new areas over the years, including parenting , stress management , and even love , but the area where this approach has had the greatest success has been creativity. million in innovative revenue reductions specifically to the training.

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Office Politics Is Just Influence by Another Name

Harvard Business Review

The combination of emotional intelligence and, what the late great David McClelland, called socialized power , can result in influence strategies that make people enjoy working together toward common goals. In such companies power is used well – for the good of people and the enterprise.