Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The key reason: they typically do not connect to what drives and motivates employees. While competitive dominance and service excellence are nice goals for senior managers, they do not motivate frontline employees. At their core, people get motivated for a cause. A cause gets them out of bed in the morning.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

By scoring crucial aspects of your performance, you instantly motivate improvement, become less susceptible to wasted effort, and encourage more mindful decisions. But if that’s the only practice you’re getting, chances are you’re only operating at a fraction of your potential. 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve. 5 Embrace the Vision-Ability Gap.

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Rajesh Setty

JUNE 13, 2013

The journey in simple terms is akin to a “wild” roller coaster ride in the dark. If you can recruit and lead a team of volunteers and keep them motivated until the results are achieved, you would have learned a host of things that will serve you well in your entrepreneurship journey. raise $XX funds. b) recruit volunteers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The authors of a Harvard Business School working paper, Goals Gone Wild , reviewed a number of research studies related to goals and concluded that the upside of goal setting has been exaggerated and the downside, the "systematic harm caused by goal setting," has been disregarded. Did this motivate employees? Remember the Ford Pinto?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Academic studies are showing that the peer effect works in motivating people to save more. Walgreens, for instance, which has widened its mission from operating pharmacies to improving people’s overall wellness, would naturally want people to get more exercise and live healthier. Putnam Investments has developed a “How Do I Compare?”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

It might make a provocative slogan, but few brilliant people are really motivated by the prospect of failing. ” Anyone operating in a large enterprise feels the truth of Krakauer’s quip. In 2012 Wired magazine included Krakauer on its list of 50 people who will change the world. Don’t valorize failure.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2009

Ass-U-Me Oscar Wilde said “ Assume and you make an Ass out of U and Me ”. And so, perhaps it becomes even more important to not only establish a discipline around speaking plainly ourselves but also ask others to adopt it too.sort of like an operating principle for talking to each other. There is an element of truth in this.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

By handing operations over to the nonconscious mind — including high-level, complex operations like pursuing goals — we make productivity possible. Some of it we can notice if we engage in a little self-reflection, but much of it we simply cannot — it's not directly accessible to us at all.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Hence much of the management world operates under the illusion that employees are generally ethical, and that bad apples are not only an exception but also easy to detect. Teaming your less moral employees with colleagues who have strong integrity will motivate them to behave more ethically. Reduce their temptation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

However, it’s clear that some of the more traditional ways — and some not-so-traditional ones — of paying people are no longer motivating and engaging employees. This drumbeat isn’t misguided, as it is absolutely wrong ( and unlawful ) to pay employees differently based on gender or age, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Different operational skills. Even within a discipline there are differences in core operational strengths: often highly technical businesses will have more than one highly technical co-founder, but one of them will, for example, be a terrific architect while the other will be excellent at R&D or engineering. Similar work habits.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.". Human beings operate best when we take on one thing at a time , sequentially. The problem is that you don't feel any better for it after several weeks, and your motivation fades. Not too much, not too little.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

When a new direction was chosen, it would reflect the best elements of both cultures and operating approaches.” Trust is diluted further when, in an attempt to keep people motivated, early communications sometimes state that “nothing will change,” and yet employees see change happening as people are let go.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! When I look at my goals and dreams, it keeps me motivated to push forward while also reminding me to not focus on or sweat the small stuff. This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. What is that!?”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

By analyzing the true motives for networking (yours and other people’s), one can avoid hurt feelings and letdowns. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Lesson Learned: Understand your true motives for going the distance. Spot them and avoid them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

At several financial services firms , for example, business units whose employees reported speaking up more had significantly better financial and operational results than others.” ” While truth telling is critical in any organization, larger organizations are perceived as more political and therefore less safe to be honest in.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” They created a feeling that no matter how demanding or volatile other aspects of their lives were, things were at least operating as they should within the domestic world in which they had some measure of control.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

John Paul Getty installed a coin-operated pay phone in his villa to avoid subsidizing his guests’ phone calls; at the time, he was the richest man in the world. Success often strengthens the undesirable side of people’s personalities, perhaps because power lowers their motivation to positively manage their reputation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. It would be one thing if these misapplications actually improved engineering motivation and performance, but we have found that in practice, the opposite happens.

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