If the first change stopper, dependency culture, is heavily related to Relationship type motivators, and the second change stopper, busy-busy management, is more relevant to Achievement motivators, then it may come as no surprise to Motivational Mappers that the third change stopper, isolation, is deeply connected to the third of the motivational triad, Growth motivators.Continue reading “Organisational Change Blocker #3: Isolation”
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Motivation and Ambiguity
The most wonderful thing about Motivational Maps is, surely, that it has created a language to describe, and a metric to measure motivation. In the past motivation was at the mercy and the vagaries of whichever speaker was speaking; it could mean whatever you wanted it to mean. Great, if you were or are aContinue reading “Motivation and Ambiguity”
Being 100 and Wholly Distracted
Governments have two main ways to control their people. One, and obviously, are the Police, Judiciary, Armed Forces and so on. Overuse of the 'assets' and people sooner or later (Tunisia) get fed up and rebel. No, these 'assets' are heavy handed and really can only be 20 or 30% of the solution if societyContinue reading “Being 100 and Wholly Distracted”
Conversation and Insight
There are many benefits from talking to someone: friendship, support, encouragement to mention only three, and they and all the others are extremely important. But one benefit seems to me especially important, and that is the benefit of insight. When we talk to someone else do we get insight? Insight into what? Many things, butContinue reading “Conversation and Insight”
Imaginary Beings, Numbers and God
The imagination is one of the most powerful faculties of the mind or indeed of human beings generally. It was the poet W. B. Yeats who said: “The imagination has some way of lighting on the truth which reason has not … and its commandments are the most binding we can ever know.” But thenContinue reading “Imaginary Beings, Numbers and God”
The Mapping Motivation Series 