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Great Leadership: The Power of I’s

Great Leadership By Dan

I remember some of the most important themes great leaders provide from the first letter of the word, which I call “The Power of the I’s”: • Interesting and Important Work —Everyone should have at least part of their job be of high interest to them.

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Motivation in the Modern Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

Two contributing pioneers from “ the way-back machine ” in that regard were Abraham Maslow and Frederick Herzberg. Motivation/Hygiene Theory (Herzberg, 1966). It is truly difficult to imagine what life in an organization was like back in the day of Maslow and Herzberg. The Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow, 1954).

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Life Strategy and Executive Coaching

Tony Mayo

… Frederick Herzberg , who asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn’t money; it’s the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements. I’ll describe how the process in the model worked its way through an industry quite different from their own.

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A New Model For Cooperation, Values, and Employee Motivation

The Idolbuster

In 1968 Frederick Herzberg reminded us of this in his now-classic Harvard Business Review article entitled “ One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? They overlook the power of collaboration with their employees. In 1943 Abraham Maslow clearly explained our hierarchy of needs includes being respected, accepted or valued by others.

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Thinking About a New Job?

Lead Change Blog

Start with the lessons we learned from Frederick Herzberg. Frederick Herzberg was an American psychologist. Herzberg identified two factors that determine how satisfied we are with work. They’re easy to count and easy to use to keep score, but their power to motivate doesn’t last very long. It includes money and benefits.

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Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Harvard Business Review

There is power in creating a positive cycle like Clapham did. Indeed, HBR 's The Power of Small Wins , recently explored how managers can tap into relatively minor victories to significantly increase the satisfaction and motivation of their employees. According to Clapham, youth recidivism was reduced from 60% to 8%.

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May the Force — of Inspiring Leadership — Be with You

The Practical Leader

Star Wars is a classic good guys versus bad guys tale based on powerful concepts of mythology identified by Joseph Campbell in his classic book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces ( click here to read my review of his biography and work). Some of the other episodes are good, and some are unwatchable.