Here is my favorite Top Eight list for inspiring, enthusing or motivating
(whichever facet of the human you wish to connect with)
Having:
1. Clear Client Relationships
2. Personal Accountability
3. Authority For Direct Communication
4. Clear Responsibility For Costs
5. Authority to Schedule Own Work
6. Opportunity to Demonstrate Unique Expertise
and getting 7. Direct Feedback
and being supported in 8. Psychological Growth
Afficianados will recognize it as Herzberg. And they will know, as well,
that Psychological Growth is not a destination such as "self realization"
but: a personal journey that exposes you to;
1. knowing more
2. understanding more
3. creativity -- qualitative leap of insight
4. effectiveness in ambiguity
5. individuation -- some unique talent that sets you apart.
6. real growth -- the ability to pursue character accomplishments and
self respect separate and distinct from personality adjustment for status
and security.
Importantly, Herzberg advises management educators that:
Dialog with others can help in the first three.
But the last three come only from self-discovery.
Maslow did not "get it." Neither did Freud (but Jung almost did).
The highest need of man is Information. Deprivation of all information (as
in a sensory deprivation tank) will irreversably disorganize an
individual's knowledge base -- the foundation of consciousness -- in 72
hours.
And any executive who has more than five levels of management between
him/her and a) the people who work with materials or b) the people who work
with customers, is informationally deprived.
The really sick ones come to believe that Wall Street is the customer.
And, Fred, I suggest that you get thee ( and Jay) to a nunnery -- or at
least to Julliard or to a video replay of a rehearsal led by Leonard
Bernsteim, or a demonstration of jazz to youth groups by Wynton Marsalis or
an account by Billy Mills about how he won at the Olympics, or what Vince
Lombardi or George Allen said at half-time, or how Harley Davidson turned
itself around in the middle of a swamp or how Remmele Manufacturing rides
the surf of of knowledge and innovation (www.parshift .com) or the
principles and behaviors of Admiral Rickover, let alone General Patton.
There you will clearly see "systematic, reliable ways of instilling
intrinsic motivation."
Of course, as Ralph Hodgson, warns, "Some things have to be believed to be
seen."
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Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:36:20 -0500
>From: fred nickols <
fnickols@ETS.ORG>
[...]As a purely practical matter, I know of no systematic, reliable ways
of instilling intrinsic motivation
[...]
>Frankly, I took Jay's inquiry as a little bit tongue-in-cheek and thought
>a half-way serious answer was the best way to respond.
and "Dr. Gary Lundquist" wrote Re: Motivation
[...]So I wrote my top ten. I suggest that you, too, sit down and write
your own
>motivators. I'll bet you that they don't fit neatly into Maslov's
>hierarchy. The people we need to motivate, including ourselves, are beyond
>most Maslov levels.
>
>I'd love to see lists from other people. To know our similarities, our
>differences.
>
>My ten:
> Team membership
> Challenging and creative tasks
> Authority to perform
> Recognition of past performance
> Respect
> Feedback, including rapid and honest criticism
> Cooperation
> Commitment by upper management
> Working environment/material support
> Salary/benefits package
>
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