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Desire-Based Leadership

A Manager’s Unexpected Key to Driving Top Performance

Unlock first-place motivations and get first-place results

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The

BIG IDEA

When the job we have is a pathway to the life we desire, we bring our best performance to work everyday.

Yet, most managers struggle to drive results because they try to motivate top performance based on how it will make the business more successful.

Desire-Based Leadership: A Manager’s Unexpected Key to Driving Top Performance helps leaders avoid this trap with proven insights and tools that build trust and drive performance by aligning with the true engine of professional motivation: each person’s ability to get the life they desire.

This book equips managers to:
  • Understand and accept the true nature of professional motivation
  • Identify what each team member wants most
  • Leverage their team's life desires to drive top performance
  • Cut Millions of dollars each year in attrition and replacement costs

“You could love your work. You could enrich your family. You could be a manager people love to have and a person managers love to emulate.

All of this is possible once we choose to lead people as beings of desire rather than as units of productivity.”

Desire-Based Leadership, chapter 11, “I HOPE…”

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What You'll

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The LIFE Motivation Model

The LIFE Motivation Model is the leadership tool at the heart of it all that Phil created and refined during his most challenging times as a people leader. This simple, intuitive framework turns discovering your team members’ personal life desires into a lightweight and scalable process.

Desire-Based Leadership gives a detailed walk through of how to use the model to transform the impact of your coaching, hiring, and performance management work.

The LIFE Motivation Model equips leaders to:

  • Quickly gain a comprehensive understanding of what will motivate each team member's top performance
  • Honestly assess if each team member can get what they want from the job they have
  • Satisfy and retain the people whose desires can be fulfilled
  • Proactively support the attrition of those whose desires can't be fulfilled

Feedback From Leaders

“Phil’s insights are exactly what today’s leaders need to help them drive performance and business results by centering their management practice on what employees want, and not only on what the business needs.”
Bruce Ableson
Sr. Director, Global Readiness, Adobe
“Phil’s ability to connect on a human level, tell his story with vulnerability, and reframe how we think about leadership, success, and fulfillment was inspiring. Whether you’re a new manager or a seasoned executive, Phil is someone worth learning from.”
Ashton Williams
Director of Enablement, Salesforce
“Everyone remembers their favorite business leader. Phil helps you become one. Whether you are a new or tenured leader, he gives you new perspective and tactical tips on how to bring out the very best in your people.”
Jen Allen-Knuth
Speaker & Founder, DemandJen

About

THE AUTHOR

Phil Putnam is a leadership speaker, author, and former Apple and Adobe insider with 20+ years of experience inside high-performing teams.

His human-centered approach to leadership is the cornerstone of his impact, and has enabled him to nurture people and deliver exceptional outcomes during each stage of his career.

His  GIVE TO GET TM methodology is used by top companies to build trust, engage employees, and drive meaningful growth in the face of constant change.

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