A zest to master the next challenge? The pleasure of meeting familiar colleagues? Or the desire to have influence and impact that puts your stamp on the world?
These are examples of the three fundamental motivators of our behavior which the great psychologist David McLelland identified: the need for achievement, the need for affiliation and the need for power. These are the great – largely unconscious – drivers which shape the course of our personal and working lives.
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