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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Yet companies continue to invest in skills development only to be disappointed by little or no difference in performance. Satisfy the motive and you will manage the behavior. Effective managers are typically more oriented toward details, as are functions like quality control and accounting. Its companion pattern is Depth – ie.,,

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Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager

Harvard Business Review

Now, you’re going to be managing a team of high-performers in a division of your company that everyone’s buzzing about. I’m not sure they even really need a manager, they’re that good and that motivated.” You noticed, I’m sure, that you’re the third new manager appointed in the past two years?”

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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

But hierarchies are flattening as power moves away from top internal management and toward employees and a proliferation of external stakeholders. Altrocentric leaders, on the other hand, derive power from motivating, not controlling, others. Organizations need to develop leaders who are motivated by altrocentric leadership.