How do we motivate people? It’s a question that the business world spends a little too much time trying to answer. HR departments, managers, and the C-suite can play with incentives all they want, but we already know the amount of monetary incentive employees need: just enough that money isn’t an issue. But that amount of motivation only gets us so far. It should be considered our baseline.
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I teach spin classes in my spare time. Some people might picture leading a spin class as simply yelling at a group when they should go faster, when they should slow down, and getting on people if they’re slacking, but it isn’t about that at all.
