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Great Leadership: The Power of I’s

Great Leadership By Dan

As the management theorist Frederick Herzberg once said, “If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.” Yes, some jobs may be inherently boring, but you can give anyone in such a job at least one task or project that’s stimulating to that person.

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Why Do Employees Leave Their Jobs?

The Center For Leadership Studies

Inflexible Workplace Policies Frederick Herzberg conducted a pioneering study on human motivation in the late 1950’s that remains relevant today. What became known as Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene theory concluded that the things that turn people on about work (i.e., working conditions, a “bad boss,” restrictive policies).

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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. Life isn’t a project to be completed; it is an unknowable landscape to be explored.

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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? Today we’ll take a break from Busting Your Corporate Idol for this timely guest post from Omer Soker, Founder of The Ethics Of Success. .

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How Leaders Can Push Employees Without Stressing Them Out

Harvard Business Review

In a classic article, Frederick Herzberg called these kinds of things “hygiene factors.” Get up and walk around to talk to people, thanking them for helping on a project, hitting a sales goal, bringing in a new account, or staying late. To the greatest extent you can, provide certainty and clarity. Don’t be that boss.

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Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Harvard Business Review

It is an observation that has been made as far back as the 1968 issue of HBR in an article by Frederick Herzberg titled, "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" ( PDF ). Indeed, Zimbardo is attempting a grand social experiment himself called the Heroic Imagination Project (watch his TED Talk here). achievement and (2.)