i don't think you can motivate the unmotivated i i don't think you could motivate people people either are motivated or unmotivated i think you can inspire people um and uh and you know you can motivate people with sticks and carrots you know offer them bounty or threatened punishment and you'll get behavior that you want is there loyalty is there love absolutely not um usually when people are unmotivated it's not necessarily them it might be the situation they're in maybe they don't belong in the culture maybe they feel unseen or unheard maybe they're scared maybe they're unprepared so we we have to you know when somebody's unmotivated let's not label them as unmotivated first what are the 20 other things that it could also be let's start there now are there some people in the world who are maybe unmotivated absolutely you hired them which means you bear some responsibility if it's if it's time to transition them to help them find another place where they're going to be a better fit we can't yell at them and call them stupid unmotivated and push them out the door we have to bear some of the responsibility we hired them and if we made a mistake and hired somebody who's a bad cultural fit then we have to take care of them and help them transition to somewhere where they're going to be a better fit i think that you know if we only focus on motivating people and that's a factor then um you're only going to get very finite thinking an excessive amount of motivating things like hit this number get this bonus you'll get a motivated employee pool that doesn't care about each other might stab each other in the back and eventually we'll take a better job somewhere else we have to inspire people we have to give them that sense of cause and vision that their work is worth more we have to make them feel like they matter and feel like they're seen and heard and understood and what ends up happening is those people are not only more vote motivated and inspired but if they're offered a better higher paying job somewhere else they turn it down because it's not just about the bonuses and the money it's because they would rather be here with these wonderful people you
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