Writing in the American Express Open Forum, Katie Morell offers five leadership lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King:
- Don’t underestimate low-level employees
- Embrace fear
- Encourage creative tension
- Know the why
- Involve everyone
For an explanation about what Dr. King meant by each of these, click here.
http://www.openforum.com/articles/5-leadership-lessons-from-martin-luther-king-jr?extlink=em-openf-SBdaily
Entrepreneurs share time management tips
Recently five busy business owners who each own more than one business offered their personal time management tips. Among their suggestions:
- limit meetings
- set weekly goals and organize your time around achieving them
- thoroughly train your top lieutenants
- keep your to-do list close at hand
- treat your personal time slots like they’re must-attend business meetings.
To find out more about these and other ideas, click here.http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/222635
Ten minutes to understand motivation
If you can carve out about 10 minutes to watch an entertaining video (full disclosure 10:58), you can expand your understanding of motivation by leaps and bounds. The video reports on an MIT study that showed three things:
- What motivates people to do simple tasks does not motivate them to do even “rudimentary cognitive” work.
- With tasks that are not simple ones, higher incentives actually led to poorer performance.
- There are three things that motivate people to perform more complex tasks – none of which have anything to do with money.
Among other things, this research confirms the validity of our C4 Leadership Framework: that as we move from Compliance (C1) through Cooperation (C2) to Contribution (C3), performance is dramatically enhanced – and we can occasionally experience the singleness of purpose and extraordinary performance found only in Communion (C4).
Here’s the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
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