Mark Hortsman’s first critical behavior that he discusses in the book The Effective Manager is getting to know your people. The manager that know his or her team members better than average are also better than average at getting results. Makes a lot of sense right! Every person that we work with is an individualContinue reading “The Effective Manager: Get to Know Your People”
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Part III: What Gives You Drive?
Part three of the book Drive, talks about purpose. The motivating factor. The reason we spend the extra time, long nights, leave comfort, risk financial ruin or worse hurt your pride. Don’t we all yearn for making an impact and discovering a goal or purpose. I always think of the line from Grey’s Anatomy, “It’sContinue reading “Part III: What Gives You Drive?”
Part II: What Gives You Drive?
Mastery. Key number two in Daniel Pink’s book Drive. Mastery is a mindset. They found that people who believe that intelligence and capacity for learning is a muscle were much more successful than those who did not. Those who believed these characteristics were fixed, when coming across failure, thought they just couldn’t do it becauseContinue reading “Part II: What Gives You Drive?”
The scale of I to X
In a scale of 1 to 10, what are you? Daniel H. Pink in the book “Drive” talks about two types of people. The Type X behavior and the Type I behavior. Type I behavior responds to intrinsic motivation rather than extrinsic motivation. My younger brother spent hours growing up learning all the stats fromContinue reading “The scale of I to X”
Pigs and People 