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Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work

Lead Change Blog

Trying to motivate them is frustrating for everyone involved and it just doesn’t work. You will learn the top 5 motivation issues people face, and discover how to guide your people toward increased productivity, deeper engagement, and a profound sense of purpose. Learn more and register here.

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Motivating a Dispersed Workforce: A CEO’s Guide

CO2

In today’s rapidly changing world, CEOs face the unique challenge of employee motivation in a dispersed environment. So, how do you keep a remote work team motivated, especially when they come with diverse needs and are adapting to evolving customer behaviors? This is where employee communication plays a pivotal role.

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Can Performance Pay Encourage Creativity Among Gig Workers?

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Harvard Business School highlights how motivational it is for book authors when they’re offered a guaranteed cut of any sales of their book. The focus of the study is the Chinese e-book marketplace, where the researchers compare the motivation of authors who are offered a flat fee versus those offered a share of sales.

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Why Creativity Is Hard To Repeat

The Horizons Tracker

The world is awash with great ideas, but while many would make the case that innovation and creativity should be repeatable activities, actually doing so is often harder than we think. They chose this field because cookbooks are not only creative endeavors, but also often labors of love. Recognizing creativity.

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How Leaders Can Choreograph Creativity

The Horizons Tracker

Despite the stereotype that creativity is the preserve of the lone genius, it is increasingly a collaborative affair. Recent research from INSEAD explores how leaders can do a better job by challenging the notion that creativity is driven from below and instead arguing that the best results tend to be when the leader drives things.

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How to Celebrate and Motivate Your Team at an End of Year Event

Modern Servant Leader

Do you want to celebrate and motivate your team at an end-of-year celebration, a new year kickoff, or both? Yet now is the time for creative, authentic recognition of those who went above and beyond for your organization. New Year Motivation Motivate your team to something new. These events can be tricky. Yes, by name.

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Once You Understand Emotion, Motivation is Easy

Lead Change Blog

One of the most powerful theories on how to motivate people on the work-floor is Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory. These two concepts together make a powerful combination in which motivation takes current emotions into account. Motivating on Mastery. Motivating on Connection. Motivating on Autonomy.