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Be a Proactive Leader
The Maslow pyramid or hierarchy of human needs is a theory proposed by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) in his 1943 work A Theory of Human Motivation, wherein the author formulates a hierarchy of human needs and argues that as basic needs are met (bottom of the pyramid), people begin to address higher and less basic needs.
Maslow describes the scale of needs in five levels. Each level of a need motivates our behavior until that particular need is satisfied. Once that point is reached, the next level of need will motivate our behavior until we fulfill it and then try to meet the next level.
The first need is physiological (breathing, feeding, sleeping). The second need is security and protection (physical ...
