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Shifting Out of Overdrive

Drive results. Drive growth. Drive employee engagement. Drive behaviors.

Have you noticed how often the word drive is used in business conversations? A quick internet search reveals an exponential spike over the past few years in websites that refer to driving something besides cars and computers. Do yourself and the people you lead a favor. Recognize the danger of overdrive. You can drive cattle or a golf ball. But driving people for results, performance, or motivation only drives them crazy.

You can drive cattle or a golf ball. But driving people for results, performance, or motivation only drives them crazy.

The road to driving everything from results to people’s motivation was paved by Drive Theory, one of the ...

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