Pink’s brilliant book, Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us, is definitely a must-read for all people concerned about productivity and staff motivation. For one thing he stresses rightly the effects of motivation on being in flow, and points to some useful counter-intuitive findings. A good example is the fact that being without flowContinue reading “Pink Motivation 2”
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Pink motivation
Daniel Pink’s new book, Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us, is a cracking read, a brilliant source book for research on motivation, and an essential companion for all managers and directors of organisations who wish to tackle – actually tackle – the issue of how we motivate staff. If you want to knowContinue reading “Pink motivation”
The mentoring stories
I am a great critic of the Government’s – Conservative when introduced in 1988, but compounded further by Labour subsequently – National Curriculum for Schools in Britain. A more pointless, disabling, ineffective piece of educational legislation has scarcely ever been passed. That it was – to use a technical term – ‘naff’ right from theContinue reading “The mentoring stories”
Motivating the troops
They are now running at it. People – politicians – are even trying to persuade me to part with money to support their campaign. Jeez, haven’t I given enough in taxes? Do you feel weary? Do they? You wouldn’t guess it from the spring in their steps as their step up to the microphone. Continue reading “Motivating the troops”
Establishing your purpose
Everybody has a purpose – another word for this would be mission – but not everyone knows what it is. Some people seem to instinctively grasp their purpose early on, and others find that it is slowly revealed to them. There is a third category of course: those who resist their purpose and die unfulfilled,Continue reading “Establishing your purpose”
Creating Teams
One of the most important skills of a true leader is the ability to create strong and effective teams. The reason for this is simple and can be summed up in the well known acronym: TEAM – Together Each Achieves More. What this means is that there is a synergy that happens when a trueContinue reading “Creating Teams”
The language of motivation
Sadly, all human beings are flawed and imperfect; all human organisations are limited; and most sadly I find that all diagnostic instruments exhibit strange characteristics when under stress. It is for this reason, perhaps, that I have long resisted, and recently so too, the pressure to get Motivational Maps translated into another language. One languageContinue reading “The language of motivation”
Getting to grips with performance
The subject of performance is one of the most important of our lives and of our business. The reasons are not difficult to understand. At one level we are constantly judging how people perform, consciously or subconsciously. This may be easy to get when we consider a leader or manager at work: we think, ofContinue reading “Getting to grips with performance”
What effect does low motivation have on your organisation?
One of the saddest things about working in organisations is often the lack of time and attention that is paid to motivation of the staff by senior and middle managers. It is always one of the nonurgent priorities that can be deferred till later. The net result of this is that motivation also becomes notContinue reading “What effect does low motivation have on your organisation?”
POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE
In the world of business we are very familiar with the concept of performance. So too in the world of sport – performance matters. In fact whether we are aware of it or not, all of us are consciously or sub-consciously assessing other people’s performance all the time: has the post arrived on time?Continue reading “POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE”
The Mapping Motivation Series 