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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

In short, he became the unintended victim trapped by what the Financial Times called “byzantine organizational politics.” Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. This leads us to take the high ground.