No motivation? There's the door

Leaders like to congratulate themselves on being good at motivating people. But doesn’t this imply that their employees have apathy as their default setting? How are you at work? Do you sit around indifferent until a manager finds the time to swing around to motivate you? If so, you just might have the wrong job.

When we find the right job we motivate ourselves to do well, just because we enjoy what we do. If you’re a manager and spend a lot of time motivating your workers to do the jobs you hired them for – maybe you should face the music and admit that they are simply wrong hires?

And if you bitch about your manager not motivating you – get out of your seat, head for the door, open it and walk out. Or do you need someone to motivate you to do that, too?