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Understanding Team Needs in Leadership: A Guide to Need Theories

CO2

McClelland’s Need Theory: A Tool for Effective Leadership McClelland’s Need Theory, known for its empirical backing, categorizes needs into Achievement, Authority/Power, and Affiliation. This particular condition is called Frustration-Regression (Redman 2010). You considering both your and your team’s needs.

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0619 | Jean-Philippe Vergne

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He is an assistant professor of strategy at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. 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.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

how to do something faster, better or cheaper) over procedures; high motivation toward goals, rather than avoiding problems; and high future time orientation with a focus on long term strategies, future customer needs and environmental changes. It is one of three core motivational drivers identified by McClelland.

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Thomas J. DeLong: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

where he was responsible for the firm’s human capital and focused on issues of organizational strategy and organizational change. ??At Before joining the Harvard Faculty, DeLong was Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Group, Inc., At Harvard, Professor DeLong teaches [.].

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Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager

Harvard Business Review

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. You’re likely still relying that strategy now. This is what McClelland called “personalized power.”

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Office Politics Is Just Influence by Another Name

Harvard Business Review

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. At best, such confidence is grounded in self-awareness, self-management, and a desire to move people for the good of all.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This tracks the "drives" theory of David McClelland. There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. A simple survey can identify, within barbershop chapters, whether the group is mostly interested in a) socializing or in b) performing at a high level.

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