How do you motivate yourself and your staff? How is your company motivated, despite how you want it to be motivated?
Focus your company and your staff to develop internal motivations in support of a company-wide goal – like a Non-Arguable Goal (NAG) or a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG).
Transcript
John Lamy:
For motivation, internal motivation is superior to imposed, external motivation. But I think you’re making the point that accountability needs to be visible against an external standard that is more objective. And then that makes a framework and a structure within which you can have these internal developments. You could say, “Well, I felt I fell short. I feel crummy about that.” And you can wallow in that self-pity. Or you can pick up and say, “Okay, let’s make it better next time.”