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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. People and Group.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. 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

As a campaign progresses, however, keep in mind that competence and autonomy are two building blocks of personal power. Volunteers need to have personal benchmarks to measure their own progress and know if their work makes a difference. Chunk the data.