About Management: ONE Secret to Becoming a Better Leader and 10 Ways to Motivate Your Employees

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From Dan McCarthy, your Guide to Management

This week's newsletter contains my two latest articles. The first is all about personal development focus, and the second is about creating a motivating work environment. I hope you find them both to be helpful in your ongoing quest to become a great leader!

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Dan

The Secret to Becoming a Better Leader

There’s a scene in the Movie “City Slickers” where the lead character, Mitch, played by Billy Crystal, is debating with his ornery trail boss Curly, about the meaning of life. It goes like this:

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
[holds up one finger]
Curly: This.
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don't mean s--t.
Mitch: But, what is the "one thing?"
Curly: [smiles] That's what you have to find out.

I think Curly may have been on to something in regards to how we approach our development as leaders. Read here to find out how.

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10 Ways to Motivate Your Employees

Have you ever heard the old saying: “You can’t motivate anyone, they have to motivate themselves?” From a purely psychological perspective that may be true, but people will more likely to motivate themselves when a manager creates a motivating workplace environment.

What does a “motivating environment” look like? Read here to find out.

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