It´s been a long time since I reached the conclusion that motivation is everything. Managers should not be people with power to fire but with power to inspire. Why do I say that? Well, teams are a really difficult issue to deal with (For me, the most difficult and challenging one) and the task of managing people should be in charge of managers with the ability to motivate them, to inspire individuals to believe in what they are doing.
The job of the manager consists on creating a smiling face image each morning when his team wake up. My work rocks! is what the team has to believe, and the first person that has to beleive it is the manager. When you think that, everything that you do for the common purpose worths it, and then you become the most productive guy of the whole earth. Happy people creates successful companies, and the work of a good manager is to make people feel comfortable and happy in their workplace.
Motivate is difficult to achieve, but the excellence is being able to inspire. There is no work as demanding as that. Inspire people is give them an example of behavior every single day, every morning, in every decision. The values you want to see in your colleages are the values that you have to show, and that is the way you have to act. Every detail is a must, every reaction has to be clear and secure. You have to become the “Example man”, and your challenge is to create as many “Example men” as you can in your team, so the day you have to go, the guy in charge will be, at least, as good as the guy that is gone.
Escrito por alvaroxperiences 
