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To craft a purpose that motivates your team, balance pragmatism and idealism

Darren Ashby and Atif Sheikh, Harvard Business Review

While many leaders strive to energise and motivate their teams to do work that matters, the unfortunate reality is that employees often feel...

Four reasons good employees lose their motivation

Richard E. Clark and Bror Saxberg, Harvard Business Review

Motivation — the willingness to get the job done by starting rather than procrastinating, persisting in the face of distractions, and investing enough mental effort to succeed — accounts for 40 per cent of the success of team projects. Yet managers are often at a loss as to how to effectively motivate...

How to keep working when you’re just not feeling it

Ayelet Fishbach, Harvard Business Review

Motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it’s hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn’t in it?