I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” In this article I start to question the predominant ethos of reward based Motivation and start to explore the idea that “If you use carrots and sticks, you’ll end up with donkeys.” On the surface it makes complete sense that if you …
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I don’t know if it has ever occurred to you, but everything that anybody has ever achieved started out as a dream. Whether it is a child persuading a parent to buy an ice cream, a business person building a successful business, or landing people on the moon, they all started with an imagined outcome …
One of the things I find most fascinating about motivation is how often what we think people want, and what will motivate them, is not what they want at all. Bizarrely, and really just to underline how easy it is to get this wrong, this even applies to how we think we are motivated ourselves …
If I asked you the question “What do you want?”, would you really know the answer? … Immediately and without hesitation; with complete certainty and conviction? Would you know even if I woke you from a deep sleep at 3:30 in the morning and asked you? Or interrupted you when you were totally immersed in …
Have you set your goals for 2013 yet? If you’re serious about producing the results, here are three easy to apply tips that I guarantee will dramatically increase your chances of success. (Although my examples use a simple personal goal, these tips are every bit as effective with more complex work or business goals.) 1. …
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How many times have you heard or said something that sounds broadly like “Our people are our most valuable asset”? I know it’s a cliché, but I imagine that most people reading this would, at least generally, agree with that sentiment. Well, here’s the bad news: IT’S NOT TRUE! What’s worse: some of your people …
