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Management in India: Grow from an Accidental to a successful manager in the IT & knowledge industry
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Management in India: Grow from an Accidental to a successful manager in the IT & knowledge industry

by Rahul Goyal
May 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
328 pages
8h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Management in India: Grow from an Accidental to a successful manager in the IT & knowledge industry

What is demotivating?

Let us look at some of the factors that de-motivate people in the knowledge industry.

Uncertainty is demotivating

There are always some amount of unknown factors in everyday work (and life) and most people deal with them quite naturally. However, as the level of uncertainty rises, people get anxious.

When there is too much uncertainty, it gets harder to predict the outcomes of your efforts. If there's no real visibility of success, there will be less motivation to make an effort. It can be worse, based on an individual's capacity to handle uncertainty. Some people are too scared to make a mistake, and they will make every effort to validate before they move forward, losing precious time or not acting at all.

When uncertainty ...

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