McClelland was a general without any sense of timing or engagement. MORE

Assuming you have defined the right business objectives, the most important key for successful gamification is to target the right motivators: the drives that make people want to engage and that stimulate the right thoughts and actions to accomplish your objectives. In this episode, Jesse discusses: The Four “E.A.S.I.” ” Game Drives Game Actions that appeal to […]. The post GC25: Four Game Drives – and One Drive to Rule Them All appeared first on Engaging Leader. MORE

Leaders need to let go of current leadership competencies steeped in outdated, unproven, or disproven management and motivation theories such as command and control leadership styles, Maslow’s Hierarchy, Skinner’s Operant Conditioning, and McClelland’s Achievement Motivation. MORE

The term “gamification” gained popularity in 2010; by the end of 2012, it had reached mega-trend status. For decades, video games had demonstrated phenomenal power in engaging the focus of people of all ages. MORE

David McClelland points out that both emotionally intelligent leaders and their egocentric counterparts tend to be motivated by power; they enjoy having an impact on others.The difference is in the type of power driving them: Egocentric leaders tend to be concerned only with personalized power – power that gets them ahead. Employees used to know just your name, your face, your business reputation. MORE

Bob's blog entries Abraham Lincoln (our 16th president) Ambrose Burnside “tried by war” and “decided by victory” “Unconditional Surrender Grant” Claremont Graduate University George Halleck George McClelland Horton Professor of Management & Director of Research and Education Irvin McDowell Joe’s Journal: On Turning Failure to Success John Polk Joseph A. Here is the latest post by Joseph A. MORE

Bob's blog entries “11 traits common to driven professionals” “Let's Hear It for B Players” “Why Mentoring Matters in a Hypercompetitive World” BYU Chase Peterson David Foster Wallace David McClelland Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School HBR Jonathan Franzen Leadership and Organizational Behavior Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley Group Inc. Thomas J. DeLong is the Philip J. MORE

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. But, as David McClelland pointed out, the need for power is very human. MORE

This tracks the "drives" theory of David McClelland. MORE

It is one of three core motivational drivers identified by McClelland. What if…. You could easily predict the performance of your leaders, your teams and your organization ? You could gain access to the underlying motivators that drive a leader or employee to do their best work? MORE

The combination of emotional intelligence and, what the late great David McClelland, called socialized power , can result in influence strategies that make people enjoy working together toward common goals. Most of us cringe when we think about office politics. MORE

His ongoing research on the global arms industry received the inaugural Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2011. Jean-Philippe Vergne is the author of The Pirate Organization. MORE

McClelland got the ball rolling in the 1970s. Competencies testing and training has proved invaluable in business ever since Harvard psychologist David C. MORE

Today, we’ll review three attempts to classify human needs: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Alderfer’s ERG Theory, and McClelland’s Need Theory. McClelland’s Need Theory. What are your needs? I recently visited Penn State’s Wiki on Need Theories , which I found illuminating. MORE