Higher profits are driven by better productivity. Better productivity stems from excellent managers who know that it’s critical to value and motivate all their people (not just executives and “stars”). Excellent management is a function of MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy) which is worth more than money in the high stakes employee motivation game.

MAP is everywhere and affects everything, so it’s to your advantage to understand your colleagues’ MAP, no matter your position or theirs. Managers and candidates should evaluate each other’s MAP to be sure, at the least, they’re synergistic; salespeople familiar with their customers’ MAP will sell more; and great managers not only know their people’s MAP, but also their own.

Since MAP is learned, not innate, it changes, either passively, through the influence of those around you, or actively, in ways that you consciously choose.

I believe that good MAP is (in no particular order) positive, open, flexible, honest, secure, interested, enthusiastic, patient, sincere, encouraging, caring and loves creativity (its own or others).

Remember, every solution starts with, and is grounded in, your MAP.

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