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The “get leadership quick” schemes

A while back a good friend called me:

6 min readMay 27, 2021

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The “get leadership quick” schemes

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3/5 “I don’t feel like doing this!”;

Deterrents or demotivators are the things that decrease the value of Want for an action. The value of Want is the result of the Sum between…

6 min readMay 25, 2021

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3/5 “I don’t feel like doing this!”;

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Leadership is the only job we don’t know we are doing while we do it

Leadership, if we were to functionally define it, means INFLUENCE. That is what we do when we do leadership.

3 min readMay 22, 2021

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Leadership is the only job we don’t know we are doing while we do it

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2/5 What does maturity have to do with motivation/engagement?

Maturity or maturation (how it’s called in psychology) is the process of learning to feel what we feel. More easily said, maturity is when…

6 min readMay 18, 2021

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2/5 What does maturity have to do with motivation/engagement?

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1/5 Motivating people is not always the answer: “I am not motivated” vs “I don’t want to do it”

It is rarely that in normal conversation we say “we are not motivated to do something”. Instead we say things like this:

5 min readMay 15, 2021

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1/5 Motivating people is not always the answer: “I am not motivated” vs “I don’t want to do it”

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Hey leaders! People already have meaning and purpose, you don’t need to create one.

We know that finding the work meaningful and feeling it serves a purpose is crucial for work engagement (yes, not just for gen X,Y,Z …).

7 min readMay 4, 2021

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Hey leaders! People already have meaning and purpose, you don’t need to create one.

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“How-to” for leaders: the mechanics of meaningful work

I tried to figure out the mechanics of “meaning”, beyond the cognitive definitions and descriptions. So, what does it actually mean to find

6 min readApr 16, 2021

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“How-to” for leaders: the mechanics of meaningful work

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When leading give up asking“Why?” … because everything happens for a rea … function!

There is nothing aberant when it comes to humans (and organizations). Anything that happens has a function, anything!

9 min readApr 9, 2021

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When leading give up asking“Why?” … because everything happens for a rea … function!

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simpLEADfy vs. compLEADcate

Fake “High Performers” and Fake “Low Performers” … If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a ..

Are you familiar with the hilarious “image recognition” fails? Let’s talk about the “performance recognition” ones.

9 min readApr 6, 2021

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Fake “High Performers” and Fake “Low Performers” … If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a ..

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In our desire to not micromanage we ended up abandoning people — abandonment is not autonomy

We’ve been hearing the word Autonomy and its synonyms for 10 years already (35 years in psychology). We heard all about it in books &…

8 min readApr 2, 2021

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In our desire to not micromanage we ended up abandoning people — abandonment is not autonomy

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anto simpLEADfies

solutionist @ simpLEADfy.com | simplifying leadership in plain language | reducing noise, keeping complexity | without wisdomous one-liners

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