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Competing with yourself is a very powerful motivator – if you provide something to compete against.

…to motivate you have to arouse people emotionally through stories, play, humor, and other means…

You lose your freedom, your motivation, your soul, and in exchange for control over your life, your company often gets little more than a show of work.

…focusing on a positive outcome rather than avoiding a negative one typically leads to greater persistence, more flexibility in finding ways to reach a goal, increased creativity in solving problems, greater internal motivation, more satisfaction, and better results.

…studies have shown that people whose motivation comes from within… are more energized, more engaged, more persistent, and ultimately higher performing.

Fear, for most leaders, is less a crippler than a motivator.

All of us are as unaware of our blind spots as fish are unaware of the water they swim in, but those who swim in the waters of privilege have a particular motivation to remain oblivious.

Most people who get caught in a lie, mistake, or hypocritical dance feel sharp dissonance and are motivated to squirm out of it with a flurry of self-justification.

Will encompasses morale, motivation, inspiration, commitment, desire to engage, desire to offer discretionary effort and so on.

The difference between an organization where people are extrinsically rewarded to give their all and one where people are intrinsically motivated to do so is the difference between an organization filled with mercenaries versus one filled with zealots.