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Elon Musk by Walter Isaascson

Leading Blog

I think a huge part of the way he motivates people are these displays of sharpness, which people just don’t expect him, because they mistake him for a b r or goofball.” Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. They’re risk mitigators.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

You could gain access to the underlying motivators that drive a leader or employee to do their best work? It’s called motivational profiling. Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Dominant motivation driver.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology. It may be better to focus on someone less tied up in the constraints of an industry and more motivated to apply new thought leadership to create – excuse the cliché – breakthrough performance. Realize that P.E.

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

These factors can divide into individual elements, including lack of confidence, low self-stability, stress, lack of ambition, lack of motivation, fear of failure, low self-efficacy, lack of commitment, and autonomy on a job. The core of this role is to keep all the steps mentioned above in action and functioning correctly.

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Why Underdogs Win (More Often Than They Should)

LDRLB

But midway through the movie, however, we get a peek at the real motivation that drives Rocky to train so hard to fight Apollo Creed. Recently, there’s been a wealth of attempts to study that underdog narrative and its motivating effect on individuals and teams. Rocky tells Adrian he doesn’t want to win.

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3 Critical Skills of Effective Leaders.

Rich Gee Group

First off — great leaders do three things — no more, no less: They motivate their people. Now let’s look at each one: They motivate their people. This means an array of capabilities like coaching, mentoring and how to give constructive feedback which reinforces the behavior and motivation of your peak performers.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

In their CFO Magazine piece, “ How An Obsession with Metrics Is Killing Your Company ”, authors Alexander Van Caeneghem and Jean-Marie Bequevort , write, “The quest for financial performance and the pressure to measure can corrode organizational cultures, narrow the focus of leadership, reduce intrinsic motivation, and support unethical behavior.

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