Power of the Motivator Best earning to Rich

The Power of the Motivator

We must deal immediately with a wrongheaded idea now circulating widely about this topic. It say that no one motivates anyone and that all motivation must come from within. But think about times when you have been at your best. Was it not due in large part to the influence of some inspiring person? perhaps it was a teacher who knew how to pull something extra from you and got you so excited about a project that you stayed up most of the night reading, or a boss who could make work fun and had a knack for putting together a team in which people found themselves producing beyond their usual capacities. Wellington reportedly said that when Napoleon was on the field, it was, in balance, the equivalent of fighting against another 40,000 men. the fact is that we can be highly motivated by the right leader.

When France fell to Hitler in June of 1940, it seemed that for the second time in 25years the lights were going out all over Europe. Germany immediately began preparations for an invasion of the British Isles, and the prospects for successful resistance looked very bleak. The Soviet Union stood aside, the United States was far from being ready to enter any war, and most military experts predicted that England, poorly armed and poorly prepared, would topple to an invasion with in weeks. But the experts made those predictions with out taking the measure of a 65 years old politician who, after an erratic and frustrating career filled with failures, had finally been handed the post of prime minister on May 10. The seven remaining months of 1940 were a pivot of modern history. England and perhaps the whole Western world owes its existence to the ability of Winston Churchill to breathe hope into a dispirited and frightened nation during those months.

To appreciate the power of the motivator one need only picture the families of Britain as they gathered in their living rooms and listened and listening to Churchill thunder out from their radios:

The Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us on this island or lose the war...

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

Looking back on England's heroic defiance of Hitler, most would agree that indeed it was England's finest hour. But that heroism could have lain dormant in the British people had not churchill been so successful at galvanizing their will.

The Power of the Motivator We must deal immediately with a wrongheaded idea now circulating widely about this topic. It say that no one moti...

Longing for Inspiration

The Longing for Inspiration

History shows that in almost every arena there is a vacuum waiting to be filled by some person who can impart vision and steer people's energies into the best endeavors.

Some leaders assume that people are basically lazy and do not want to be inspired. That assumption can be heard in sales managers voices when they say that nothing seems to build a fire under their sales people, or in a teacher's lament, "harry is just not motivated!"

"But there is no such thing as an unmotivated person say R.J. Wlodkowski, a professor of education at the university of Wisconsin. "it is more accurate to say, "Harry is not motivated to learn with me." For Harry will spring out of bed at three o'clock on the morning of a fishing trip and display plenty of motivation. Watching factory workers hurry out of a parking lot at the end of the shift quickly dispels any notion that they are inherently lazy. They are in a rush to get to evening activities, some of which will probably be more taxing than anything they have done at the factory.

So the leader's challenge is not to take lazy people and transform them into industrious types. Rather it is to channel already existing energies into the most worthwhile endeavors. People do not like being lethargic and bored. They will welcome the manager who can teach them to enjoy their work, or the teacher who will impart to them a love of learning that causes the school day to go swiftly.

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Business Person Must be Psychologist

Why Every Business Person Must be a Psychologist

One’s financial success is much less dependent on hard work and knowledge than it is on the ability to lead people. Many bright person rise rapidly in their careers because of their high-tech knowledge. But once they arrive at a level where they have to succeed through the efforts of others, they get mired down simply because they have not learned the art of multiplying themselves. One industrial psychologist says that promotions are 90% dependent on technical know-how for a rank-and-file worker. For promotions as supervisor, technical knowledge is 50% and human relations are 50%. For promotions as executive, technical expertise is 20% and human relation are 80%. An almost total switch in skills takes place as people rise higher on the management ladder.

            The German Poet Goethe observed, “The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.” Yet this law is ignored by a surprising number of hard-working people whose careers have not been kissed by success. They’ve failed to accomplish big things because they have failed to master the art of inspiring others. Those who get ahead sometimes have limited gifts themselves, but their people consistently turn in superior performances. And that is because, though these leaders do not necessarily work long hours, when they do work they use their time organizing and motivating people.

            “Great [corporate] leaders understand human behavior rather than cybernetics of any functional specialty,” says James Schorr, executive vice-president of Holiday Inns Inc. Translated, what he is saying is that proven motivator will make it to the top before a proven genius. When Andrew Carnegie hired Charles Schwab to administer his far-flung steel empire, Schwab became the first man in history to earn a million dollars a year while in someone else’s employ. Schwab was once asked what equipped him to earn $3000 a day. Was it his knowledge of steel manufacturing? “Nonsense,” snorted Schwab. “I have lots of men working for me who know more about steel than I do.” Schwab was paid such a handsome amount largely because of his ability to inspire other people. “I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the men the greatest asset I possess,” he said, and any leader who can do that can go almost anywhere and name almost any price.

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Motivation Is Not Manipulation

Motivation Is Not Manipulation

Before going any further we must make it clear that the topic before us is not manipulation. In the last decade a spate of books has been telling us how to get ahead by intimidating people and stepping on the bodies of our subordinates. You have wasted your money on this book and would be well advised to return it to the bookseller if you are looking for techniques for twisting people into doing your bidding. This is a book on motivation, not manipulation. The difference is this. You are a manipulator when you try to persuade people to do something that is not in their best interests but is in yours. You are a motivator when you find goals that will be good for both sides, then weld together a high achieving, high morale partnership to achieve them.

Motivation Is Not  Manipulation Before going any further we must make it clear that the topic before us is not manipulation. In the last dec...

Mother Inspired Her Children

Bringing Out the Best in People

“helping other people grow can become life’s greatest joy.” –Alan Loy McGinnis-

How to enjoy helping other excel

The Friendship Factor

How One Mother Inspired Her Children

The Lazy B Ranch is comprised of 260 squire miles of scrub brush on the New Mexico and Arizona border and has been in the Day family since 1881. when Harry and Ada Mae were ready to have their first child, they traveled 200 miles to El Paso for the delivery, and Ada Mae brough her baby, Sandra, home to a difficult life. The four-room adobe house had no running water and no electricity. There was no school within driving distance. One would have thought that with such limited resources, Sandra’s intellectual future was slim.

            But Harry and Ada Mae were dreamers who did not allow themselves to be limited by their surroundings. Harry had been forced by his father’s death to take over the ranch rather than enter Stanford University, but he never gave up hope that his daughter would someday study there. And Ada Mae continued to subscribe to metropolitan newspapers and to magazines such as Vogue and The New Yorker. When Sandra was four, her mother started her on the Calvert method of home instruction and later saw that she went to the best boarding schools possible. Sandra’s brother Alan says that one summer their parents packed them in the car and they drove to all the state capitols west of the Mississippi. “We climbed to the dome of every building until finally we had to come home,” he said.

            Sandra did go to Stanford, then on to law school, and eventually on to become the first woman Supreme Court justice in the United States. On the day of her swearing in, the Day family was there, of course. During the ceremony Alan watched her closely as she put on her robe, then walked to her seat among the justices. “She looked around, saw the family and locked her eyes right into ours,” said Alan. “That’s when the tears started falling.”

            What causes a woman like Sandra Day O’Connor to go so far? Intelligence, of course. And lots of inner drive. But much of the credit goes to a determined little ranch woman sitting in her adobe house at night, reading to her children hour after hour, and to parents scampering up the stairways of capitol domes, their children in tow.

Bringing Out the Best in People “helping other people grow can become life’s greatest joy.” –Alan Loy McGinnis- How to enjoy helping other e...