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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

You could gain access to the underlying motivators that drive a leader or employee to do their best work? It’s called motivational profiling. Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Dominant motivation driver.

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

Kevin Eikenberry

John teaches men and women to achieve positive results by focusing on communication, influence, motivation and supervision. McClelland was a general without any sense of timing or engagement. And of course, nominee for Best Leadership Blog of 2010. His nominated blog Lead By Example can be found here.

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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

Competitors will be recast as allies, as rival companies will have to work together to achieve more complex technical innovations. Leaders motivated by power over others will not thrive in this new world. Altrocentric leaders, on the other hand, derive power from motivating, not controlling, others.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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