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Why People Lose Motivation—and What Managers Can Do to Help
By Dan Cable
At some point, every leader has dealt with a person—or, worse, a group of people—who has lost motivation. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? As much as we’ve been there ourselves, sometimes it’s hard to sympathize with others who are disengaged from work and are unproductive as a result. Sometimes, we view their unhappiness as a bug in their mental makeup—and, therefore, we think they should be able to suck it up and snap out of it.
Although it’s easy to fall into this mindset as a leader, this type of thinking is counterproductive, and it ignores the underlying reasons why people lose their passion for what they do (or never find it to begin with).
In order to get at the crux ...
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