I definitely found the "predictably irrational" and "drive" books/topics to be quite interesting. Motivation was a subject I wasn't very familiar with and the circumstances involved in performance results around motivation through compensation and independent development was very informing.
My resulting conclusions were not to use the carrot and stick approach unless the tasks were simple and routine. My work uses this for nearly every task for 1/2 of the task force, but does allow a lot of self-directed work time to the other 1/2. I belong to the non "carrot and stick" group and the self directed work time is probably my favorite part of this job. I noticed that the bosses are pretty good about being cheer leaders to their group's accomplishments, and was even called up myself to the stage for an award in front of the entire company.
In following the "Drive" group's presentation, it made quite a few things clear to me about how corporations develop reward programs and where we can learn to improve our own. If I were to request that we add a particular book to the lineup, it has got to be the Army Manual on Leadership. It would be very very interesting to learn through concise statements what they will need to know (at the least) about taking a group into a life and death situation. How do you motivate someone when compensation is not an option!?!!!!!
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I love this class.. and I'm sad to have it end. I guess the blog will live on though. As a final lesson, I learned not to depend on what you may have seen from someone before.. they have the ability to suprise you when you least expect it!
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