If your employees are not motivated by the baseline task, you’re either recruiting wrong or defining the task wrong.
Your staff should show motivation before you show them the bonus structure.
You’re hiring killers and operators – not pigs and NPCs.
FIRE AVERAGE PEOPLE; HIRE EXCEPTIONAL MOTHERFUCKERS!
- Purposefully Set Open-Ended Timelines
As a leader, you’ve done a good job if your staff eventually leave to start their own thing.
If you’ve led them to experience the fire that you felt when you built the thing, you’ve succeeded as a businessperson, a leader and a human.