Posts Tagged ‘motivation’
M: Maslow
This post is the second in a series on motivation theory. Over the next few weeks, we’ll review the history of empirical thought on how to motivate followers. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is perhaps the most frequently cited psychological model of all time. Most often, one encounters Maslow’s pyramid in freshman year of college while [...]
M: Motivation
This post is the first in a series on motivation theory. Over the next few weeks, we’ll review the history of empirical thought on how to motivate followers. Motivation is elusive. We struggle with the challenge of motivating ourselves to get out of bed and find a job. If and when we’ve found one, we [...]
Jim Collins on Demotivating Followers
Jim Collins, author of Built to Last, Good to Great and now Great by Choice (possible rejected title: “Good to Last”), recorded this insightful clip for Big Think examining three ways that organizational leaders can demotivate their followers.
We Don’t Negotiate Salary
This week I’ve been re-reading Jeffrey Pfeffer and Bob Sutton’s under-appreciated classic Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense. The book is a call to action for evidence based management filled with intriguing anecdotes about companies who might just be doing a better job understanding human nature than common sense dictates. Tucked into the book [...]
Dan Pink on Free Work Time
Dan Pink first wrote about giving employees free work time in his best-seller Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. In this talk, given at Business Innovation Factory 7, he goes more in-depth on the power of non-commissioned work, including great research from Teresa Amabile.
