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Archive for February, 2015

“An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break.”

—Chinese Proverb

Autonomy Is Key for Better Motivation

The question of how to better motivate employees has stumped many leaders. But if you focus on three universal psychological needs – autonomy, relatedness, and competence – you may find that it’s not that complicated. Take autonomy. People need to believe that they have choices and that they’re in charge of what they’re doing. The way you frame information and situations influences whether someone will feel autonomous. So when discussing goals, don’t make them seem like dictates or measures by which to hold someone accountable – frame them as essential for the person’s success and an opportunity to fulfill a meaningful goal. And don’t apply pressure to perform. Sustained peak performance is a result of people acting because they choose to, not because they feel they have to.

Adapted from “What Maslow’s Hierarchy Won’t Tell You About Motivation” by Susan Fowler.

My 5 questions to the team management of Pakistan cricket team in Australia:

1. Out of the 8 wickets taken by Indian pacers mostly our batsmen got out on rising balls? Who is responsible for this failure of the inability of our batsmen to play rising balls?

2. Why Irfan didn’t bowl rising balls? And if he was unfit (just bowled very few rising balls) why he was included.

3. Why Misbah allowed spinners to bowl to Raina?

4. Why Ahmad Shazad got bogged down and wasted many balls just for his 50?

5. Why our batsmen didn’t rotate bowling and didn’t take singles and played HUGE number of 169 (28+ overs) DOT balls? Who is responsible for this Cardinal failure?

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