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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Effective managers are typically more oriented toward details, as are functions like quality control and accounting. It is one of three core motivational drivers identified by McClelland. Its companion pattern is Depth – ie.,, thinking in small chunks of information and focusing on details. Future Orientation.

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Mastering your Inner Game of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

What are the enduring qualities of great leadership? Starting in the 1960s, the late Harvard psychologist David McClelland and a group of researchers wanted to understand great leadership and why it matters. McClelland called these qualities ‘socialized’ power.

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Office Politics Is Just Influence by Another Name

Harvard Business Review

And, despite the bad rap that politics gets, successfully engaging in politics requires the development and use of good qualities. 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

It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. This tracks the "drives" theory of David McClelland.

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