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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
No offense but bull.
People are motivated short-term by traditional carrot/stick methodologies but in the long-term they are motivated by deeper items
Autonomy
Purpose
Mastery
And a lot of that comes from within and then a manager taps into it understanding what motivates specific individuals. We can debate how effective GG is at that, but I would say we have little to no insight on that.
These guys should be going out there with drive largely for self-motivation reasons. They have all sorts of reasons why they should "go out there with drive and confidence". If they can find those within themselves we have the wrong guys.
But to go back to my point, if I don't show up ready to work, I get fired. My manager isn't going to put a lot of time to try and motivate me. He's going to fire me.
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So get pragmatic about this though. It’s fine to say just get different players, but changing over an entire roster is a near impossible task.
When I’m teaching someone in my profession, ideally I have extremely talented and motivated people. But I don’t always have that, and when that occurs I don’t just throw my hands up and say “the people we have aren’t good enough!”. I try to find different ways to help them be better, whether that is finding ways to help their performance, or their motivation and commitment level. Even if they are lacking motivation or natural aptitude, I am still going to do whatever I can to get maximum performance out of them, not just tell HR to fire them and hire new people.
The idea is even more exacerbated in competitive athletics, where the smallest of incremental performance improvements can make the difference between winning and losing.
When you have a whole team of players collectively bombing far too often, a team that a few years ago were very hard working, resilient, and consistently competitive. And your best solution is to turn over the entire roster as opposed to changing the leadership?
Even if you cling to that idea of a complete player overhaul, it’s completely unrealistic. And when you have 15 of 18 skaters coming out flat so often, at some point you have to look for the structural reasons why that is happening, not just trade the 15 players that consistently come out unready to compete at the required levels.