As a CEO or leader of a team, your primary role isn’t to motivate talent—it’s to believe in them and avoid demotivating them.
Consider Ricardo Semler of Semco Partners. He revolutionized his company by giving employees unprecedented autonomy, resulting in remarkable growth and employee satisfaction.
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it,” said Theodore Roosevelt.
Your job? Create a culture where talent thrives naturally. Show belief in your team’s abilities. Remove obstacles, not hold hands.
Are you motivating, or are you liberating your team’s inherent drive? If you are encouraging, you may have made the wrong hires, if you have the talent, it is your leadership that you should question.
