ABSTRACT
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
—Stephen Covey
As illustrated by the collection of quotes above, there are some wide differences in views about motivation. Some people believe that motivation is all about effort or persistence (Michener). Some people believe that it has a lot to do with the ability to inspire others (Laird), whereas yet others believe that structure can impede or foster inherently high motivation (Covey). If anything can be confidently said about motivation, it is this: there is no dearth of thinking about it. There are people all over the globe thinking and theorizing about motivation. As a result, there are many different perspectives about what gets people motivated or disheartened.
