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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

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. Effective managers, on the other hand, are more Present time oriented to deal with daily activities. Changing just behavior is at best temporary.

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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. Leadership Managing people Personal effectiveness'