The Wrong People Can’t Be Motivated to Do the Right Thing

Posted by Jim Connolly on 1 September, 2009  Email This Post -  Print This Post

It’s true.  The wrong people can’t be motivated to do the right thing, according to Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and the newly released How The Mighty Fall. 

How woud the performance of your organization be different if you didn’t have to spend time trying to motivate the wrong people to do the right thing?  The “right” people for your organization don’t have to be motivated to do the right thing.  They just do it.

So here’s the challenge.  What percent of your employees are the “right” employees for your organization?  And, what are you going to do to improve the odds of selecting the “right” employees for your organization?

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