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How to Motivate People?: Know Your Owners and Victims
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Know Your Owners and Victims. Those who follow the part of themselves that is great will become great. Those that follow the part that is small will become small. The people you motivate will tend to divide themselves into two categories: owners and victims. Owners are people who take full responsibility for their happiness, and victims are always lost in their unfortunate stories. Victims blame others and victims blame circumstance and victims are hard to deal with. With the owners in your life, you don...
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How to Motivate People?: Get the Picture
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People cannot be managed.Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. Here's a question often asked: Isn't leadership something people are born with? Aren't some people referred to as born leaders? Yes, but it's a myth. Leadership is a skill, like gardening or chess or playing a computer game. It can be taught and it can be learned at any age if the commitment to learn is present. Companies can turn their managers into leaders. WORK LIKE AN ARTIST (What else can we try? Know where motivation comes...
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How to Motivate People?: Use the Power of Deadlines
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Use the Power of Deadlines. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Put your requests into a time frame. If there is no pressing time frame, make one up. If you want a report from someone, finish your request by asking, "And may I have this by the end of our business day Thursday? Literally, it is line over which the person or project becomes dead! Deadlines propel action. So when you want to get people into action, give them a deadline. Once, we were leisurely writing a book when the publish...
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How to Motivate People?: To motivate your people, first just relax
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To motivate your people, first just relax. A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. The great music teacher and motivator of artists Rodney Mercado had a simple recipe for success. He said, "There are only two principles that you need to get to play great music or to live a great life: concentration and relaxation. And that's it. That is it.". Michael Richardson recalls this remark and what he said back to Mercado, "What? That doesn't have anything to do with music! Get the lead out of your pants!
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How to Motivate People?: Preface
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Motivation and leadership advice is getting more common, and we might be confused as to what maxims and teachings we should follow. The best approach to select the right advice for you would be to disbelieve whatever a motivator says - until you apply his or her advice, and see that the results work for you. These motivational tips are distilled from many years of trials and tribulations in work place. The practical, powerful wisdom encapsulated here will yield benefits for you from day one.
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How to Motivate People?: Play both Good Cop and Bad Cop
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Play both Good Cop and Bad Cop. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. If you are an effective motivator of others, then you know how to play "good cop, bad cop," And you know that you don't need two people to play it. A true motivator plays both roles. June 14, 2012 at 6:38 AM. Arent we really just talking good leaders using various styles of leadership given various situations and organizational environments. Why characterize it as bein...
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How to Motivate People?: Play It Lightly
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The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. Then you develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. CEO, J P Morgan Bank. The most motivated people we work with are not taking themselves all that seriously. The ones who struggle the most view the company's next success as their own mortgage payment or what holds their marriage together. Here's what the overly serious people miss: the fun, the creativity, the lighthearted ideas, the intuition, the good spirits, the easy energy, an...
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How to Motivate People?: Enjoy the A.R.T. of Confrontation
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Enjoy the A.R.T. of Confrontation. To command is to serve, nothing more, and nothing less. André Malraux, French Philosopher. One of the tricks we teach to inspire increased motivation in others is what we call "The A.R.T. of Confrontation." It shows leaders how to enjoy holding people accountable. You can see why they don't do a very good job of holding people accountable. Fortunately, there is an enjoyable way to do it. This recommitment places the conversation in the proper context. Ninety percent...
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How to make your shoes act Tough and Look Good: Shoe superstitions for Wealth - The ultimate shoe care guide
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How to make your shoes act Tough and Look Good. Shoe superstitions for Wealth. By wearing holes in the soles of your shoes you will become wealthy. If you wear your shoes out on the toe you will spend money as you go. If you want to win at cards, you must put on the shoes you are going to play in before you eat. Never put on the shoes you are going to wear to a party after you eat or you will lose every time. Putting your stockings in your shoes before going to bed will cause you bad luck.