Something to motivate you / your team at work!

Virdi

Virdi

Virdi

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"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. "

Henry J. Ford
Ford Motor Company
 
How is that supposed to motivate me? It makes me feel sick.

Motivation is this:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
 
That is neither motivational nor inspirational.

Show me the money or GTFO of Dodge, my man :)

edit : OP shows a bewildering lack of awareness about Ford, his practices and methodologies, if quotes alone are the basis of proof.
edit 2 : In fact, it's the same kind of ill-considered HR carp that is dolled out when times are bad, tensions are high and you have a hugely unmotivated workplace. A good rule of thumb is to read the 3 separate strands of the sentence together and actually think about what they mean and, more importantly, what you are supposed to take from them; do you now feel better, more harmonised and in alignment with your colleagues?

Yeah, thought not.
 
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Gilly said:
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Good choice, I'm also quite fond of "Our Deepest Fear" as penned by Marianne Williamson if you ignore the religious overtones. It was used in Coach Carter albeit slightly amended.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”.
 
scorza said:
Ah - as Terry Wogan pointed out at one point this week. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you don't understand how serious the situation is!
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Or you're approaching the situation with a clear idea of what needs to be done and not running around like a headless chicken with no idea what to do!
 
This is real motivation:

If
If you can keep your head when those who manage
Have lost the plot and need someone to blame,
And bust your gut to minimise the damage,
And know you’ll never blush to find it fame;
If you can knuckle down and get the job done,
And be content with knowing it’s done well,
And seek no more reward - then you’re a mug, son.
Don’t work so hard – but push yourself like hell!

If you can boost your key performance metrics
With “competencies” that you never had,
With HR unaware that you’ve sussed their tricks
And found the loopholes in their latest fad;
If you can keep your boss, and his boss, happy
While letting lesser liveware do the work,
You’ll seem, to those who count, a clever chappie.
(Ignore the nobodies who think you shirk.)

If you know nothing practical – just bull****!
(Don’t worry, no-one senior will know.)
You’ll have your share of luck, my son, so push it!
You’ll be surprised how far and high you’ll go.
If you can meet redundancy and head-hunts,
And in the face of each be just as bold
(You’ll find it’s not so hard when it’s been done once
- But don’t forget your parachute of gold!);

If you do nothing useful, but can witter
About key tasks, rightsizing, and team roles
You’ll find that you’ll be seen as all the fitter
For more promotion up the greasy pole.
If you can talk the talk and walk the walk, son,
That’s all you need, to be a plutocrat.
Grab all you want; let others do the work, son,
And if you don’t – well, son, you’ll be a prat.

I'd agree it doesn't flow as well as Kiplings original version.
 
Threats bread motivation. And hatred also helps - i hated my old boss, i was motivated to punch him in the face. Which i didnt but i had the motivation.
 
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