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An Opportunity to Assess Intrinsic Motivation in Your Organisation Free of Charge
In most organisations, motivation has traditionally relied upon Extrinsic motivation. This refers to behaviour driven by external factors, such as a reward, promotion, or avoidance of punishment. This may work in the short term but rarely in the longer term. Intrinsic...
Developing Young Soccer Players in Hungary
An exercise in developing young people on the cusp of adulthood. Szabolcs Hollosi is a Hungarian Coach who implemented a development programme for 10 young soccer players at an elite Sports Academy in Hungary between November 2021 and May 2022. Mostly in their late...
AQR INT · Mental Toughness - Control
Optimism and Mental Toughness
A key aspect of mental toughness that, when added to Resilience, elevates it to a more useful concept. Naom Chomsky is one of the great thinkers of our time. He is provocative in that he makes you stop and think about things that you might take for granted or simply...
35 Years and Counting – What’s Next?
I founded AQR International on January 1st, 1989, in the middle of a recession. In my last post of 2023, I reflected on the changes since then. Sometimes it felt as though we were in a permanent recession. Where once we were a consultancy working directly with...