Week 5, Blog #2: Motivation

In chapter 9 it talks about motivation. I firmly believe motivation can make or break an employee. I know I have talk about my job in previous blogs but this is definitely a subject that I think is reflected strongly in my job situation. I am a very happy-go-lucky person. I don't need a lot of encouragement, and I'm pretty good at taking the reigns if needed and running with them. My boss, however, loves to set unattainable goals, criticize everything we do, and them mad when we don't perform up to his set par. He thinks that constantly pointing out everything that he thinks we can do better, ever when we are doing better than the corporate set goals, is the way to motivate. Obviously, it's not. Motivation is probably one of the most important aspects of managing I think all managers/owners should master.

Week 5, Blog #1: Procedural Democracy

Reading this weeks lecture about democracy and communication really reminded me of how most peeople (ok, well me and my friends really) make our decisions. I really started thinking and I tend to go through a procedurally democratic decision making process. Say I have a few ideas of what I want to do for the day. I'm first going to weigh my options on what is the best to me... Then I'll impore my friends to give me their opinions... Then I may even ask some of the members who come into my work... And then based on theirs' and my decision I'll decide what I want to do. Now this doesn't happen every time for anything, but it is definitely something I've noticed about myself.