Posts Tagged ‘motivation’
Dead calm – How I’ve lost the wind beneath my sails.
For the last four months, I’ve been stuck in a dead calm. It’s as if I’m in in a yacht, rudderless, with no waves or wind to carry me forward. There’s no island in the distance, beckoning me. I keep waiting for a gust of wind to propel me ahead to the next ‘big thing’:…
Read MoreA Story About Biscuits
Everyone is different. So it makes perfect sense that what motivates one person in your team may be completely different to another. Some years ago the following interview was broadcast on an Open University sociology TV programme. The interviewer was talking to a female production-line worker in a biscuit factory. The dialogue went like this: Interviewer: How…
Read MoreMotivation for change
In a recent blog post I asked you what your most pressing leadership questions are right now. There were a range of excellent responses and in the end I couldn’t choose, as they all were great questions! So instead I will do my best to cover all of them over the next few months. Today’s…
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