The trouble with motivation
Grown-ups are suspicious of banners and slogans. They don’t go in for orations and cheerleading. They don0t like to be asked to do foolish things. Dig a latrine, or do anything humble or disgusting? Let someone else do those jobs!
We see a variety of exhortations here and there in the workplace. We see banners strung from tree to tree at company picnics. We see corporate teams work up a sweat when they compete publicly against one another, as in a three-legged race.
If you go on one of those corporate rock-climbing team-building trips, people who don’t say boo to each other at the office are indeed helping one another scramble up a cliff face. That0s great. But it0s make-believe. It0s not the real world. Get those rock-climbers back to the office reality and the old grumpiness, and the old “Have we been introduced?” attitude creeps back into place. Maybe not the day after climbing El Capitan, but soon enough.
0Motivation0 has gotten a bad name because of some of these rah-rah gimmicks. The feeling many is that it excites people for an hour, but then the motivation fades away. They say this kind of 0motivating the troops0 only works […]

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