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Ask everyone in your department or on your team to respond to these four questions with a numerical ranking (using a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 meaning “almost none” and 10 meaning “a huge amount”):
Daniel H. Pink • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Our experience shows that the development of employees is the lowest priority of four criteria that cause us to adapt our leadership behavior in the moment. At the head of the list comes time pressure, then fear, and next comes the quality of the job or the product, leaving employee development a poor fourth. Shortage of time and excess fear drive
... See moreSir John Whitmore • Coaching for Performance: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership FULLY REVISED 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (People Skills for Professionals)
On the company’s intranet is a file where colleagues can “rate” every role they currently fill, using a scale of -3 to +3: If they find the role energizing (+) or draining (-) If they find their talents aligned (+) or not (-) with this role If they find their current skills and knowledge conducive to (+) or limiting in (-) this role
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
the predominant impulse behind our desire to succeed in the social hierarchy may lie not so much with the goods we can accrue or the power we can wield, as with the amount of love we stand to receive as a consequence of high status. Money, fame and influence may be valued more as tokens of – and as a means to – love rather than as ends in
... See moreAlain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
Just by imagining this scenario, I can immediately tell from my own inner response whether the person is an A, B, or C player.
If my first thought is, "I was going to fire this person sooner or later anyway, so no big deal and now we won't have to pay severance," that's a C... See more
Founders Notes
Money in the physiological- and security-driven modes only motivates until the need is satisfied, but money as a measure of achievement will motivate without limit. Thus the second ten million can be just as important to the venture capitalist as the first, since it is not the utilitarian need for the money that drives him but the achievement that
... See moreAndrew S. Grove • High Output Management
A manager generally has two ways to raise the level of individual performance of his subordinates: by increasing motivation, the desire of each person to do his job well, and by increasing individual capability, which is where training comes
Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management
Successful delegation starts with choosing the right person or team. Keep in mind the rule that one great person can replace three good people.
Verne Harnish • Start to Scale
Talented people are always looking for new challenges, and it’s the CEOs job to keep them hungry. Reversing the bleeding for AYI and scratching out 3 to 5 percent gains, although interesting enough to me, because it meant around $1 million in incremental profits, it wasn’t interesting to talented engineers who sought a career challenge more than
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