Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could give them a motivation injection.
But it doesn’t exist, so we can’t
We can try making speeches, invent some clever incentive scheme, scream and shout, jump...
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The thing about feedback, good and, um, corrective, it lets them know we can tell the difference.
Suppose you have two team members. One is great, she pulls her weight and goes...
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There are good days. When the when the sun shines and the customers smile and say thank you, when the code sizzles and sales frazzle, when all is just fine with...
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Being nice, you try to make difficult messages easier to take.
Being nice, you wrap all messages in coloured paper.
You say, ”Next week”, when you really mean, ”Monday”.
You say,...
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You absolutely have to do the job you signed up for. No compromise. And if that means you’re wedded to a workstation for hours of every day, so be it.
And yet.
Walk...
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