34. Managing Your Energy: External and Internal Dreams
Concept
Bill Gates once noted, “When people come to work, it’s important that they be connected to a dream.” This is an important principle of Level Three Leadership—that people are inspired and will give more energy if they believe deeply in what they are doing. Most managers don’t understand this, they simply work at Level One using rewards and punishments to motivate their people. Most likely Gates was referring to an external dream, what people want to do or become. Newburg’s subjects however talked about an internal dream, how they wanted to feel. If one is rich, powerful and famous, but feels miserable, what good is that external success?
The first element in Doug’s resonance model ...
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