Motivation brings forth creativity in you, brings forth the winning product.
Motivation relates to expectancy, makes you hang on because there is a future.
Motivation = Value x Expectancy
Motivation (0-1). Value (0-1). Expectancy (0-1)
If you want to motivate somebody, you must give him/her what he values most.
Expectancy is a perceived probability by the person; how certain it is that he would get the value.
For example: a junior engineer would like to be a senior engineer in two years time. He will value most the promotion. If the company has been consistently practicing what they have promised, the company will score a high mark for expectancy as well and thus the junior engineer would be highly motivated to perform well.
Behaviour modification - Behaviour can be modified - by reward and punishment.
Reinforcement theory of motivation - punishment when you do something wrong, and prize when you do well.
Management by Objectives (MBO)
Motivation is related to objectives. Human beings are better motivated when quantifiable targets are set.
Imagine a basketball game without the scores - a quantifiable objectives. Management by Objectives (MBO) is always relevant as objectives motivates. In business, by setting objectives, staff knows what to achieve. MBO is fundamental to Strategic Planning.
Boss sets targets
You negotiate
Agree on targets
Periodic review
Actual vs target
Timely strategies
Boss achieves
He rewards
Target must motivate somebody to do it. If it is too high, then nobody will reach out for it.
Motivation-in-Context: case study of three kingdoms. If you want to control Chinese, you must learn how they think and behaviour. One way to understand them is from the Romance of Three Kingdoms which is always alive in the mind of Chinese.
It is produced during a chaotic period in China, so it is now in 21st century, a troubling time: tsunami, avian flu, wide earthquakes, terrorism, etc. Even without these threats, our current global economic environment is chaotic, complex and is intensely competitive.
One possible reason why the Chinese continue to be making sustained enormous leaps is that they are not unfamiliar in living through such environments.
Mao Zedong - Romance of The Three Kingdoms colored and shaped a Chinese person in his thinking.
The story of the three kingdoms are not written at the first hand. It is transmitted orally. Mr. Luo Ganzhong (14th century) compiled them into a book.
Cao Cao (a character which Mao admired most) is a major character that initially tried to pretend he was acting under an imperial mandate to reintegrate the empire. However, after his defeat at the Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao no longer kept up with these pretenses. Thus the seeds of the beginning of the Three Kingdoms: Wei (North), Shu Han (West) and Wu (South).
The historical novel ends when order is restored with China reunited through the centralization of power in new Jin dynasty. Progressing from the ordered Han dynasty then into the complexity in zone of chaos to the ordered Jin Dynasty. However, in the grand finale, non of the descendants of the original founders of the three kingdoms - Wei, Shu Han or Wu - prevailed.
Cao Cao although pretended to act under the imperial order, but he actually set up dynasty Wei. However as he did this to others, others did this to him as well. Sima Yi, one of the descendants of his field marshal, did exactly that to the Wei dynasty. Sima Yan, the founding emperor of Jin dynasty said: "In so doing, I am avenging on behalf of the House of Han."
Characters in the Romance
1. Cao Cao - cunning ruthless
"It is better for me to wrong the world than it is for the world to be wronging me." (said when he slaughtered somebody I don't think I want to remember).
2. Sun Quan - reticence, indecisive.
As a leader he rarely speaks of his opinion but seek out to hear others.
Relevance of Three Kingdoms
As it continues to help Chinese make sense of the world, it also helps non-chinese to get insight of the consciousness of the Chinese, such as insights into how the ordinary Chinese mind often perceives, frames and thinks about global issues.
Mao Zedong - remained very much admired as the founding father of modern China. He read Romance of Three Kingdoms a lot.
Example of how Romance of 3 Kingdoms may color the thinking of the Chinese is the current issue of pro-independence Taiwan.
In the minds of elderly Chinese people is the eventual reintegration of Taiwan, now separated with mainland China. A philosophy that our world has a tendency to move from order to disorder and then again back to order. This is very much reflected in the first line of the Three Kingdoms and the other is right at the closing of the novel and heralds an end of the period of chaos, or beginning of order.
[Beginning]"The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide."
[Ending]"That is the world under heaven, after a long period of union, tends to divide; after a long period of division, tends to unite."
This is why, for the masses of Chinese people, there can only be a deep sense of everlasting peace if Taiwan is reunified with mainland China. This also accounts for why 1.2 billion mainland Chinese see war as a justifiable alternative if Taiwanese threaten independence.
Oh my God, I don't know what I am doing with Three Kingdoms
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