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Best Practices: Motivating Employees
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Best Practices: Motivating Employees

by Barry Silverstein
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
160 pages
2h 1m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
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Essential Skill IV

Motivational Leadership

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’”

—Peter Drucker

Leaders establish a vision, formulate strategies, scan the horizon for future problems and opportunities, generate ideas, and initiate new ways of doing things. Importantly, they also motivate employees.

 

Leaders do this by modeling the right behavior, setting high goals and standards for the company and for themselves, and displaying character and courage in their decisions and actions. The sense of purpose they exhibit, the image of a promising future that they paint, and the sense ...

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