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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. Future Orientation.

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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.” Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.

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A Guide to Managing a Volunteer Workforce

Harvard Business Review

But people in isolation do not have the kind of meaningful, transformative experiences that lead to long-term engagement. As a campaign progresses, however, keep in mind that competence and autonomy are two building blocks of personal power. Chunk the data.