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Mastering your Inner Game of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Starting in the 1960s, the late Harvard psychologist David McClelland and a group of researchers wanted to understand great leadership and why it matters. Rather, they possessed a unique motivational profile - a very pronounced need for power or influence. McClelland called these qualities ‘socialized’ power.

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Office Politics Is Just Influence by Another Name

Harvard Business Review

After all, who wants to participate in backstabbing, lying, cheating, blaming, sucking up, and playing people against each other? 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.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Some leadership expert followers might just be interested in the topic to feel motivated ( [link] ) – not that that's a bad thing… There are also those who are interested in leadership in order to continuously improve processes and study behaviors. This tracks the "drives" theory of David McClelland.

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