Managing for Happiness
Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team
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When an organization's culture is bad, don't just blame the managers. Happiness in an organization is everyone's responsibility. Better management means engaging people, improving the whole system, and increasing value for clients. Thus, management is too important to leave to the managers. I firmly believe that management is everyone's job. At one time or another we all fit the description of manager.
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Wisdom to Share
When an organization's culture is bad, don't just blame the managers. Happiness in an organization is everyone's responsibility.
I firmly believe we can only improve worker happiness when everyone feels responsible for management and learns to manage the system instead of managing each other.
The only reason people suffer from bad organizations is that they don't stand up to say: "I'm not taking this any longer; go boss yourself!"
Unfortunately, when managers continue to view the organization as a hierarchy, they usually try to impose goals and metrics on every part of the system.
Extrinsic motivation is defined as behavior that is driven by external rewards (given by others), such as money, grades, and praise.
The problem of team members needing more education can be a significant challenge because the only real form of education is self-education, which is different from training.
Give a little present to a team member or make it possible for them to offer each other gifts because gifts make both receivers and senders happier, and happier people send more gifts, in an endless virtuous cycle.
Help someone out who needs a bit of assistance or give team members time and space to lend each other a hand because altruism makes people feel good.
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