…the first task of managers is to make effective the strengths of people. And this they can do only if they start out with the assumption that people – and especially managers and professional contributors – want to achieve.
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In the game of contribution you wake up each day and bask in the notion that you are a gift to others.
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Employees should be able to look at themselves in the mirror and feel strongly that they matter to the organization, that they contribute in significant ways, that their absence would significantly hurt its results.
