On Motivation
Thinking about the way to maximize people’s involvement in your project, and full-heartedly follow you and push forward your project. How do you motivate them? There is nothing really new on this topic, people studied this area long and thoroughly. David J. Schwartz spoke about it in the Magic of Thinking Big , illustrated by taking some largely ignored routes, like treating people the human way: “What’s the human approach?” Listening to opinions, never criticize but always praise publicly, using the sandwich approach to feedback … Recent research on human motivation upon the 21st century job specifics removed once again money (above a decent limit) as the principal motivator and replaced it with some rather surprising ones like: the desire to belong, adding value to society, being recognized for their work ... Maybe not surprising after all, considering Maslow’s pyramid of needs and the tendency to self-actualization . Then, in your daily business things are not so clear and defi...