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- Did you know that common motivators like bonuses and performance reviews can actually backfire and sabotage your team’s long-term success?
- Have you ever wondered why the *reason* someone works is the single most important factor in determining how well they perform?
- What if you could use a simple scientific formula to measure your company's culture and predict its future success?
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Key Takeaways from Primed to Perform
- Discover the three positive motivators—play, purpose, and potential—and learn why viewing your work as play is the ultimate secret to maximizing performance.
- Understand why indirect motivators like emotional pressure, economic pressure, and inertia actually damage your team's overall performance instead of improving it.
- Learn how to balance tactical performance with adaptive performance so your company can execute plans efficiently while remaining flexible enough to seize new opportunities.
- Master the Total Motivation (ToMo) metric to accurately diagnose and measure your organization's culture and adaptability based on six distinct human motives.
- Find out how to strategically optimize your corporate culture by boosting positive motivation in critical areas like customer engagement, creativity, and product quality.
Primed to Perform — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Understanding what motivates employees can help you build a high-performance corporate culture.
Chapter 3: Emotional and financial pressures keep people working, but for all the wrong reasons.
Chapter 4: True success relies on balancing the different types of performance metrics.
Chapter 5: Total Motivation, or ToMo, is a helpful tool to measure a company’s adaptive performance.
Chapter 6: Creating a high-performance culture starts at the top; leaders must actively promote positive ToMo consistently.
Chapter 7: The design of a job is the most powerful and often overlooked critical source of ToMo.
Chapter 8: Shared identity and career advancement add the finishing touches to your ToMo company culture.
Primed to Perform Summary & Overview
Primed to Perform (2015) is a guide to motivation. These blinks will show you how to light a fire under your employees and colleagues – that is, motivate them to perform – in a way that brings meaningful results and is long-lasting. You’ll learn that in doing so, you’ll build a corporate culture that values high performance, which in turn will help you fulfill your goals.
Who Should Listen to Primed to Perform?
- Managers and leaders from big and small companies alike
- Businesspeople who want to increase company performance
- People interested in the science behind human performance and motivation
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