Leadership & Motivation

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From: Leadership and Motivation by Melany Brown, ASTD PUGET SOUND CHAPTER eNEWSLETTER, April 2003, Volume 26, No. 4

Almost any vision, if it is sound, will succeed – as long as people are motivated and inspired to make it work. Leaders motivate and inspire people in many ways.

• Display respect for others
• Show compassion
• Demonstrate courage and competence
• Exhibit and kindle passion
• Make sacrifices
• Have and demonstrate total commitment
• Work hard and demonstrate discipline
• Lead with integrity and build trust
• Shape and share a vision
• Identify and live their values
• Insist on excellence
• Inspire confidence

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What does an employee deserve? Looking at the list quoted above, how many employers really have those qualities? Doesn't it boil down to individual leaders? I would bet that everyone of us can look down that list and think of an individual in our past lives that is being described.

I think that all U employees can look at that list and also see just how broken this company is, at least when applying these qualities to the senior executive leadership

Two questions:

1. Is it possible, assuming that U somehow beats the odds and survives, to ever transition into a company that leads and motivates with those qualities?

2. Are any of you currently working for a U supervisor or manager that, in spite of a coporate culture to the contrary, truly motivates and inspires you?

jm