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Motivators Who Don’t Motivate

Five ways to kill ambition and lose employees

Jack Dunigan
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 12:39
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Motivation is a very personal thing, so when you find it alive and well within a co-worker, it’s in your best interest (and theirs) to do everything you can to keep it vibrant. The challenge with those who would be motivators is they easily disconnect themselves from others’ perspectives.

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Being egocentric creatures, we all look at the world through our own eyeballs. The trick is to see things through another’s while avoiding these five easily preventable, sure-fire demotivators:

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Submitted by dkhays on Thu, 03/21/2013 - 09:53

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Thanks for your points of motivation killing.

You said: "In one business, the general manager tried this guilt tactic for quite some time until more than one of his associates reminded him that their electricity bills at home had been disconnected because they hadn’t had enough money to pay the bill."

Wouldn't it be better to say their electricity was disconnected, not their bills?

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Submitted by Quality Digest on Thu, 03/21/2013 - 11:48

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Good catch

Nice catch. Fixed.
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