Comments on: How to Motivate Others and Yourself

By: wrightee

wrightee — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:21:12 +0000

Maslow came immediately to my mind too.. maybe I should go dig out those books by Kotler et al from the 80’s

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docx converter — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:05:48 +0000

thank you for sharing this video! it is very appropriate for budding entrepreneurs like me. now im thinking if i am motivating myself correctly and am i doing the right things to motivate the people working for me.

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By: Thuy

Thuy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:13:58 +0000

Autonomy is a good thing to motivate the project teams but it is also preferable to associate it to clear (not tight) bounds in order to have concrete results.
I don’t believe in the carrot stick (mainly if it is used for a long period) but rewards, when used correctly from a recognition point of view, help the team members keep their energy from a project to another one.

By: Henning

Henning — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:30:10 +0000

This is certainly an interesting video. But I would throw caution into the definition of autonomy, especially in team based industries (like engineering/project management).

I have been a part of two projects where management fully believed in autonomy, assignments were divided up along clear lines, and the team was made up of exceptional workers (I had worked with the same people before).

But by the close of the deadline, the project teams ended up hating each other because the reality was that they needed to work together on certain parts of their respective assignments - and yet this pull to autonomy caused too many conflicts of interest.

There is definitely a balance to be played out between teamwork and autonomy, which sometimes cannot be overlooked.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:01:50 +0000

This is a thought-provoking video. Thanks for sharing it. The candle problem requires creative thinking (right brain), while “success” was viewed as the fastest time to develop a known solution. Success in this example is binary, either the participants got the problem correct or they didn’t. Creativity is notoriously inhibited by time deadlines and solutions aren’t always so binary, so I wonder whether the results of these tests prove what the presenter asserts. I would like to see this tested further, where “success” is defined as the best solution (not necessarily the fastest). Would we see the same results? Can the BEST solution be achieved with rewards, or would the best solution come from the groups who received a lower financial reward?

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By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:49:22 +0000

Coming from a psychology background this stuff is pretty brain-dead obvious. But then again, maybe that’s why people keep telling me I’m a natural leader, they just haven’t had the proper training.

Wayne Key is dead on, people use Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from everything from management style to marketing for a very good reason, it is absolutely dead-on in how humans lead thier life.

Knowledge of the hopes and ambitions of individuals are unique to individuals, but the driving force behind all of us, no matter who we are, is that force to make ourselves better. Self-help gurus often make the suggestion that the knowledge of who we are is esoteric and beyond easy, one-sentence summaries. But the fact of the matter is that humans are simple creatures who just want to make their way in the world using what god gave us in the best way that we can.