"if you successfully implement its findings, you will not need to spend time and energy “motivating” people. **If you have the right people on the bus, they will be self-motivated. The real question then becomes: How do you manage in such a way as not to de-motivate people?** And one of the single most de-motivating actions you can take is to hold out false hopes, soon to be swept away by events."
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**Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[intrinsic-motivation]], [[management]], [[leadership]], [[organisational-culture]]
**Source** -- [[202410171047 - B - Good to Great]]