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Resetting Your Operating Rhythm for the “New Normal”

Next Level Blog

The situation is too fast-moving, fluid and unprecedented for any of us to settle in for whatever the long haul is and keep on truckin’ with the same operating rhythm we’ve used up until now. For years, I’ve been a big proponent of identifying and following through on your optimal operating rhythm. Mine, at least, was like that.

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What’s Your Employee Value Proposition?

N2Growth Blog

I like to think of it in terms of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. You probably remember Maslow from your high school psychology class. Pride in Affiliation: Certainly one’s work is an important part of an individual’s path to “Self-Actualization” as defined by Maslow. What does that mean?

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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. The Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow, 1954). Higher order needs embody our desires to lead purpose-driven lives, achieve mastery and operate autonomously. Motivation/Hygiene Theory (Herzberg, 1966).

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Reinventing Organizations

Coaching Tip

The next stage in human evolution corresponds to Maslow''s "self-actualizing" level; it has been variously labeled authentic, integral or Teal. This stage is the last one identified by Maslow''s hierarchy of needs but other researchers and thinkers have established with a fair amount of confidence that evolution doesn''t stop there.

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My Crisis Leadership Playbook

Next Level Blog

I practice what I preach with those routines but, like everyone who is reading this, have had to learn over the past couple of weeks how to adapt those routines to the new realities of social distancing and life and business operating rhythms that are radically different than what they were pre-pandemic.

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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Remember Abe Maslow’s famed line: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” ” It operates with the faith that wisdom lies within us all, and opts for the inefficient fostering of discovery rather than the expeditious pronouncement of the solution.

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GC24: Killer Gamification: Engaging for Impact

Engaging Leader

Even so, Gartner also predicted that by 2015, 40% of Global 1000 organizations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations. If poor design is a primary culprit of failed gamification, how can you improve your chances of success?