Desire-Based Leadership

People work to get the life they desire in exchange for the work they do. That is their number one career goal. No matter how much someone cares about their employer's success, they will always care about themselves and their loved ones more.

Yet, when it comes to driving performance, most managers try to motivate their people by showing them how important their work is to the company's goals. Because an employer's success is not what employees care about most, this misaligned approach can never produce better than second-best results.

Desire-Based Leadership: A Manager's Unexpected Key to Driving Top Performance solves this problem and equips people leaders to drive employee performance and the exceptional business results it creates through the true heart of professional motivation: the human desire to the get the life we want from the work we do.

Phil Putnam is a leading voice in people leadership, professional motivation, and business strategy. His expertise in guiding people's relationship with employment has expanded the lives and careers of countless individuals and led change at organizations including Apple, Adobe, Bloomberg and Salesforce.After years of working under well-intentioned managers whose approach to motivating performance never quite connected, he created a motivation method that is truly meaningful to team members, leaders and the organizations around them.With Desire-Based Leadership: A Manager's Unexpected Key to Driving Top Performance, Phil has condensed his human-first, common-sense approach into tactics and business cases that all people leaders can use to motivate top performance, achieve exceptional results, increase peace of mind and enrich all aspects of their own lives and the lives of those they are privileged to lead.Originally from Sacramento CA, he made NYC his home many years ago. His partner Raj and dog Bacio are the center of his desire-based life and the keepers of his heart.

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