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What Are Your Needs?

CO2

Needs drive decision-making, so it pays for leaders to know not only what their own needs are, but what their team members’ needs are as well. Today, we’ll review three attempts to classify human needs: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Alderfer’s ERG Theory, and McClelland’s Need Theory.

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GC24: Killer Gamification: Engaging for Impact

Engaging Leader

For decades, video games had demonstrated phenomenal power in engaging the focus of people of all ages. Now, businesses were using gamification, which we define as game-inspired tactics to engage people, often with similarly powerful results. However, the […].

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Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager

Harvard Business Review

The late, great scholar David McClelland studied three human needs, or motivators that are profoundly important when it comes to managing people: the need for achievement, the need for power, and the need for affiliation. Need for Power. Hill and Kent Lineback. Add to Cart.