Conversation and Motivation

by Mario Gastaldi on 3 June 2008

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Photo credit: Dave Gray

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This is an extraordinarily useful reflection for those of you who want to motivate their employees!

Too often leaders linger over negative conversations, even succeeding in persuading their people they are not adequate for the challenge.

What’s the use in this? And you … what do you think?

Read a similar perspective in Slacker Manager: How to treat people: Management by quotation

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