Teamwork
Motivation Made Simple - Mar 17, 2007 - 8:29:14 AM
If you're a manager then you've been told at least once that you have to "motivate your people." But how do you do that? Here's what you can do to get the job done. Change your mindset. Forget about "motivating" people. You can't see motivation. Motivation is inside another person's head and heart. You can't touch it. You can't measure it. And, therefore you can't manage it.

Leadership : The Leadership Team
Cargo Cults and Management Practice - Feb 15, 2007 - 10:47:35 AM

During World War II, US forces took over islands in the Pacific where the residents had never see airplanes, or canned food, or any of the tons of material that a military force needs. The islanders were careful observers, though, and they figured out what the military did to cause the goods to show up.

This is what they saw. The military folks would go up into towers they'd built and talk into a box. Soon the material, or "cargo," would arrive.

When the war ended, the military went away and the cargo stopped coming. But some of the islanders figured that they could make the cargo come back. All they had to do was exactly what the US military people had done.