Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does. by Peter Senge. By Daniel H.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If you incorporate the following metrics into your decisioning framework you will minimize the chances of making a bad decision: Perform a Situation Analysis : What is motivating the need for a decision? What would happen if no decision is made? Who will the decision impact (both directly and indirectly)?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Leadership position no longer matters as much as leadership itself (a distinction Peter Senge wrote about in The Fifth Discipline ). That limited his informed, educated, and motivated colleagues and their ability to contribute. Being powerful is less about being the boss, and more about sharing or championing ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Early on in my career I wondered what made people put their whole hearts and souls into their work. What really motivates people is the idea that they are doing something useful and meaningful. Senge's concept of learning is not just sitting in a classroom. Work must have meaning and value.

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