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Leadership and Motivation

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As leaders, we inspire or motivate our people, and we also need to motivate ourselves. We need to enthuse ourselves. We learn. And we need to feed ourselves with the necessary fuel to boost our actions and up our performance. Here, we will examine the various sources of motivation among Asians.

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Low, P.K.C. (2013). Leadership and Motivation. In: Leading Successfully in Asia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31287-8_4

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