“What do you want from your people. What do you want for them?”
– Two questions posed by Susan Fowler in her book, Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…And What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing and Engaging
Have I mentioned that it’s a pretty good danged book?
Fowler’s point, leading off Chapter 7, is that managers readily answered the first of these two questions, but when asked the second one, the deer saw the headlights and they froze.
This little nugget of wisdom makes the book worth the price, because if all we do as leaders is shift the order in which we think of these questions, we’ll make a difference. The multiplier effect comes when we focus on the leadership differences associated with the mind shift.
Why motivate, when we can difference-make?
What do we want for the people closest to us, at work, at home, in life — and how can we help them attain it?
Cool. Stuff.
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