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Category - Motivation

Motivating Workers Can Be a Real Trick

The Secrets of Human Motivation: Getting employees to do what you want them to do can be a real trick, but managers have developed four distinct approaches to the subject: Sticks, Carrots, Intrinsic, and Humanitarian. Everyone who has ever worked for an angry boss can understand why I call them “Stick Men” (or women). STICK […]

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HOW TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS (A VERY MOVING STORY!)

Sister Helen P. Mrosla wrote this moving story years ago. It so moved me when I first read it that I’ve saved it for nearly a decade…

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THE POWER OF IMAGINATION

Just a few months before I was born in 1958, the first International Tchaikovsky Competition was hosted, as it has been every…

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NIAGARA AND THE DANGER OF DRIFT

The Woodward Siblings, 1960 On July 9, 1960, a middle-aged resident of Buffalo, New York named James Honeycutt…

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