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Author:Mongeau, M.
Title:Moving mountains
Journal:Harvard Business Review
2003 : JAN, VOL. 81:1, p. 41-47
Index terms:Human resource management
Skills
Motivation
Employees
Chief executive officers
Leadership
USA
Language:eng
Abstract:What could be more fundamental to management, or more difficult, than motivating people? After all, a manager, by definition, is someone who gets work done through others. But how? A typical recipe for motivation calls for a mixture of persuasion, encouragement, and compulsion. Yet the best leaders, we suspect, need no recipe: They get people to produce great results by appealing to their deepest drives, needs, and desires. In the article, a dozen leaders describe tough motivational challenges they have faced.
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