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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Through motivation profiling and Models of Excellence tools, the motivation patterns of high performers within a call center were identified. Decision making style. Requirements for change and variety. Dominant motivation driver. Levels of strategic and visionary thinking.

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Case Study: How Much Should a New CEO Shake Things Up?

Harvard Business Review

Instead she was ramping up mobile-banking operations—which competitors were also doing—and looking to experiment with something more innovative: partnerships with supermarkets and electronics stores that would allow FDM to set up kiosks within them. Will we all be working out of call centers or supermarket kiosks next year?