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During December, we are often prompted to share how we plan to make the next year more successful than the last. In order to answer that question honestly, it is important to understand what benchmark this year has set.

“Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It’s about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the ground work for others’ success, and then standing back and letting them shine.”

If you’re like most leaders, you’ve probably learned a lot about organizational culture through experience. You may have also learned from other leaders – observing different ways to engage teams in creating change. How a leader “shows up” can significantly affect organizational culture. “It all depends on how the leader approaches improvement,” according to Tim Kuppler.

Whether discussing women in leadership, resilience, or the Chicago Blackhawks’ quest for the Stanley Cup, our intention with each Discover Blog post this year has been to help you accelerate success, lead change, and drive results. We’ve appreciated your retweets, likes, shares & comments, and are pleased to reprise our most popular posts of 2015, based on reader engagement.

What’s the best way to motivate high performance in yourself and others? Human motivation is an evergreen topic, with new ideas regularly offered by management and psychology theorists. Search on Google and you’ll find over 4 million results, over 1,200 books on Amazon. One perspective that’s stood the test of time is Self-Determination Theory (SDT).